Flying Cold: The Adventures of Russel Merrill, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0945397321 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 178 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Chronicles Russel Merrill's daring 750-mile journey across the Gulf of Alaska in a flying boat with a single motor, his first rescue mission by air, crash-landings, and strandings.
"Flying over uncharted mountain ranges, large bodies of water, and vast expanses of tundra, Russel Merrill was the space astronaut of his day he brought aviation to Anchorage the same year Charles Lindberg flew the Atlantic." ----Ted Spencer, Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum"In Flying Cold, authors Robert Merrill MacLean and Sean Rossiter have produced an outstanding volume to add to reader and collector shelves on the aviation history of Alaska." ----Robert W. Stevens, Author of Alaska Aviation History
Sean is the author of Legends of the Air (1990) which profiles 22 aircraft in Seattles Museum of Flight and Flying Cold (1993), the biography of Alaska pioneer aviator Russell Merrill.
Outstanding book on early alaskan aviation! Heroic account of how Russell Hyde Merrill brought aviation to Anchorage Alaska. This book is a must read for pilots and anyone interested in Alaskan History and bush pilots. Merrill was an ex Navy pilot who was the fist man to fly into Petrsburg,Wrangell.Kodiak and Anchorage. He discovered Merrill Pass in the Alaska Range and put Anchorage on the map as the "Tranportatio. First commercial pilot in Anchorage A Customer Trained as a pilot during World War I, Russel Merrill was determined to spend his life flying. His love of flight lured him from Oregon to Alaska, the far frontier of aviation, where Merrill piloted the first airplanes to fly into Petersburg, Wrangell, Kodiak, and Anchorage. FLYING COLD chronicles Merrill's daring 750-mile journey across the Gulf of Alaska in a flying boa. Mort Mason said Five Stars. Another Alaska bush flying pioneer gone west. Anchorage's Merrill Field was named for this intrepid flier. Very well written.