No Numbered Runways: Floatplane Pioneers of the West Coast (Canada).

Jack Schofield ’s No Numbered Runways recounts the exciting stories of early and latter day pilots whose floatplanes tracked the British Columbia coast. Often without benefit of charts, weather reports, radio, or navigational aids and, indeed, always without numbered runways, these ingenious aviators shaped the history of commercial flying on Canada ’s West Coast.

These adventures of west coast floatplane history are told here by Jack Schofield who, like the heroes appearing between these covers, flew seaplanes up and down the unforgiving coastline of British Columbia. Included are some 'tall tales and true,' which pilots call 'hangar flying,' that may help to explain why some coast dogs chose adventure over personal and financial security. After reading No Numbered Runways, you ’ll understand why one observer remarked that these aviators 'were not your Dow Jones average'.

Sono Nis Press, hard cover, 148 pages, 8.25 x 8.25 x .75 in, 100+ b&w photographs, maps and illustrations. SNP466
Price: 25.45 USD