Air Transport In Canada
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As Canada's most authoritative aviation history book, Air Transport in Canada delivers the facts, but also s the reader years of sheer enjoyment. Never have all the aspects of air transport been so thoroughly covered, from its beginnings in the 19th century with rudimentary ballooning, to the earliest bush planes in the 1920s, the first true commercial operations, the struggles and growth of the RCAF, the appearance of TCA and CPA, the impact of WWII, the evolution of Canada's aviation manufacturing industry, the appearance of jets, and on to the present. Air Transport in Canada takes you from shaky biplane flying boats to today's fabulous de Havilland Dash 8, Canadair Regional Jet and Bombardier Global Express. In between are the key people and all the aircraft types that have played their roles in opening the North, linking Canadians from east to west, and joining them to the rest of the world on the global airways. From the early Fairchilds and Moths, to the Lockheed 10 and