Название: The Bush Pilots (The Epic of Flight)
Автор: Sterling Seagrave
Издательство: Time Life Books
ISBN: 0809433125
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 15,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

One day in 1932, pilot Bob Reeve, ferrying supplies to a remote Alaskan mining town, landed at his destination to find a grizzled miner eagerly awaiting his arrival. "Got my moose?" asked the oldtimer. It took Reeve a moment to recall that on his last trip he had promised to bring some snuff, a seemingly trivial request he had promptly forgotten. To his chagrin, the miner ignored his apologies and stalked off to proclaim that Reeve was "no good"–teaching the pilot a humiliating lesson in bush-flying etiquette: Always honor a promise. In sparsely populated areas around the globe, where a packet of needles or a pouch of tobacco was regarded as a luxury beyond compare, bush pilots like Reeve were a life line to the outside.