Bent Props and Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Bush Flying.(Book Review)

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BENT PROPS AND BLOW POTS: A PIONEER REMEMBERS BUSH FLYING. By REX TERPENING. Madeira Park. BC: Harbour Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-55017-287-5. 338 p. maps, b & w illus., glossary, index. Hardbound. US$36.95; Cdn$36.95.

This absorbing chronicle evokes not just people, but textures and smells of once-essential materials now largely missing from aviation: leather, fabric dope, heated crankcase oil, white (naphtha) gasoline, manila rope, timbers sawn and trimmed to crib a twisted airframe, and wood smoke. Aviation pioneers of the 1920s and 1930s are idols of that era, even for ...

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