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UNINA9910156206403321 |
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Autore |
Jacobson Jake |
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Titolo |
Alaska Flying : Surviving Incidents & Accidents |
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Chicago : , : Publication Consultants, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Short stories, American |
Air pilots |
Bush flying |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Testimonials -- Introduction -- Early Flights as Pilot in Command-The Club -- My First Airplane -- Wrench Lake-an Unintended Stop -- Alaskan Flying Follies: Tie the Tail -- Landing Sites -- Breather Tube Problem -- Is He Gonna Make It? -- First Engine Failure -- Winter Survey on the North Slope -- Caribou/Wolf Survey 1977 -- More Winter Surveys -- BLM Surveys, Lake Inventories -- The BLM Hydrologist -- Right Hand of GOD -- Drop Out Problems -- External Loads -- Air Taxi Charters -- Aircraft Incidents and Accidents -- September 10, 1983 -- Upside Down In The Kuguroruk River -- Winning N8102y -- IPECAC and the Aircraft Mechanic -- Second Engine Failure -- 911 -- Sluggin' My Way To Fairbanks. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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LASKA FLYING: Surviving Incidents and Accidents encompass many short stories about Jake's experiences gained from 1967 to the present as a pilot in Alaska.Though he logged time as pilot in command in other parts of the world, including Southern Rhodesia, Namibia, Australia, Bolivia, Hawaii, Arizona and other locations, the stories in this. |
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