Alaska Highway flight log : a classic air journey, South Carolina to Fairbanks in a 1956 Cessna by Walker, William, 1945- author instant download

Alaska Highway flight log : a classic air journey, South Carolina to Fairbanks in a 1956 Cessna by Walker, William, 1945- author instant download

ix, 194 pages : 24 cm, Detailed description of a 7000 mile trip in a 1956 Cessna 172 taildragger from South Carolina to Alaska and back, Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187), Introduction -- Toward the highway -- The Bedford, Indiana blues -- Breaking away from Bedford -- The best laid plans -- Scenic Devils Lake, N.D. -- Across Saskatchewan to Alberta -- Reaching the Alaska Highway in British Columbia -- The Yukon: gigantic, wildly beautiful, unsettled -- Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks -- Doing Fairbanks -- Talkeetna and homage to the High One -- Return to the Lower 48 -- The Yukon to Alberta -- Racing a Montana thunderstorm -- The place the music died -- Flying and watching -- Last day? -- Planning suggestions -- Mountain flying -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes