Category: Regional: U.S.: Alaska

Copyright/published Year: 2010 by Hancock House

ISBN: 9780888396518

Binding: trade pap

Description: Occasionally tense, frequently humorous, and always ì straightforward, Alaska's Father Goose is a celebration of ì flight, a wartime memoir, a history of airline growth, and ì ultimately a quintessentially Sourdough success story. Nicknamed ì Father Goose because of his many thousands of hours piloting the ì Grumman JRF Goose, Captain Gerald A. Bud Bodding's career began ì in the age of the Curtiss Jenny and lasted through Alaska ì Airlines' jets. Graduating as a commercial pilot in 1939 from the ì then premier flying academy in America, the Ryan School of ì Aeronautics in San Diego, Bodding began a remarkable aviation ì career as a junior pilot with three of Alaska's flying legends: ì Shell Simmons, Bob Reeve, and Bob Ellis. Bodding's logbooks read ì like a roster of the great planes from aviation's Golden Age, and ì include time in the Ryan STA, Fairchild 71, Lockheed Vega, and ì Waco YKS-6, among many others.

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This book is new.