| Winging It!: Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator Second Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Jefford, Jack (Author), Fisher, Carmen Jefford (With), Fisher, Mark (With) |
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ISBN: 088240816X ISBN-13: 9780882408163 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Transportation | Aviation - History - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Caribou Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.9" W x 6" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alaska |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jack Jefford saw his first plane in 1916 at the age of six and he was hooked. By 1937 he was flying planes in Nome, Alaska and in three short years he became the Chief Pilot of the FAA. He daily faced the dangers of Alaska's skies, helped settle a frontier, and managed to survive long enough to share a lifetime of stories--delivering mail by plane, hunting coyotes, counting reindeer, transporting prisoners and congressmen, and rescuing the lost and injured, often at great risk to himself.
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Contributor Bio(s): Fisher, Mark: - Mark Fisher is the founder of the Spring Integration project. Currently at VMware, he continues to lead the development of Spring Integration while exploring the intersection of big data and messaging. He has been a committer on a number of Spring projects, including the Spring Framework itself and Spring AMQP, which he cofounded. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups about messaging, data, integration, and cloud computing. |