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Product #: 1795
Price: $39.95
180 pages
Trade Paperback
8 1/2" x 11"
Aviation, Regional History, Photography
240 color and B&W photos
Pub Date: 2004
ISBN: 0-9638817-9-5
Roundup Press
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A Photographic History of the U.S. Air Mail WINGS ACROSS AMERICA captures the formative years of the U.S. Air Mail Service and includes photographs and exclusive interviews of the great air mail pilots by coauthor Jesse Davidson (deceased). . . Bruce McAllister has supplemented the historical photographs with new color photography, linking the present with the past. This coffee-table book includes the development of the coast-to-coast air mail service, as well as the first air-mail flights in Alaska and between Canada and the United States.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Bruce McAllister is a photographer and pilot who has logged more than 4,800 hours of flight time in the United States and Canada. His previous books, WINGS ABOVE THE ARCTIC and WINGS OVER THE ALASKA HIGHWAY have received acclaim for their photography. . . Coauthor Jesse Davidson (1913-1983) was an aviation editor with a passion for collecting early air-mail photographs and interviewing the pioneer air-mail pilots.
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