The Accidental Airline

Written with the warmth, humour and keen eye for west coast character that made a nonstop bestseller of Spilsbury's Coast, this book tells the incredible story of how an itinerant radio repairman accidentally started Queen Charlotte Airlines, Canada's largest bush flying outfit.
Affectionately known as "Queer Collection of Aircraft," by the stakey loggers, pregnant homesteaders and touring 1950s movie stars who rode its ungainly "Flying Boxcars" through the rain and fog, QCA beat out the
competition to reign for one glorious decade as the queen of the booming post-war coast.
"We had everything happen to us," QCA founder Jim Spilsbury says of that remarkable era. "Everything."
Gruesome accidents, hairsbreadth escapes, high-stakes air wars, bed-hopping pilots and mercy flights beyond counting—there's never been an airline quite like QCA and there's never been a flying story quite like The Accidental Airline


by Howard White and Jim Spilsbury
Published by Harbour Publishing (Canada) 1988 1st edn. 238pp illus. maps to eps. 16x24 pencil inscription, otherwise fine including d/j.




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