Windigo wings
Type
Book
Authors
Edmund C. Cosgrove ( Cosgrove, Edmund C. )
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1967
Publisher
Pages
140
Subject
Bush pilots -- Fiction
Abstract
"The assignment seemed simple enough. Grant Mackenzie and his Cree Indian partner, Chuck Johnson, co-owners of the bush airline, Windigo Wings, had found and refurbished an old World-War-I fighter-plane. They proposed to enter their plane in the annual air-force exhibition, to participate with it in a reconstruction of a World-War-I dogfight, then to return to their normal activities as bush pilots. So much for their plans; forces beyond their control were radically to alter them.
On the way to the Air Show, they witnessed an attack by an unmarked, modern plane of strange design on a World-War-I German fighter, flying also to the Air Show. Saved by their intervention, the pilot of the antique plane, Tiny Boisvert, a friend of theirs from air-force days, to their surprise and anger denied he had been attacked, and claimed it was they who had endangered him. Next day, in the dog-fight, Tiny, opposing his German fighter to the British plane manned by Grant and Chuck, was accidentally shot down by Grant. Someone had replaced the blank ammunition in Grant's machine-guns with live rounds. The revelation that Tiny had been an undercover agent for Royal Canadian Air Force Intelligence, and an invitation to help avenge his murder, set the flying partners on the path of a bizarre adventure unparalleled in their eventful experience."--Book jacket.
On the way to the Air Show, they witnessed an attack by an unmarked, modern plane of strange design on a World-War-I German fighter, flying also to the Air Show. Saved by their intervention, the pilot of the antique plane, Tiny Boisvert, a friend of theirs from air-force days, to their surprise and anger denied he had been attacked, and claimed it was they who had endangered him. Next day, in the dog-fight, Tiny, opposing his German fighter to the British plane manned by Grant and Chuck, was accidentally shot down by Grant. Someone had replaced the blank ammunition in Grant's machine-guns with live rounds. The revelation that Tiny had been an undercover agent for Royal Canadian Air Force Intelligence, and an invitation to help avenge his murder, set the flying partners on the path of a bizarre adventure unparalleled in their eventful experience."--Book jacket.
Description
140 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 18654 | PZ4.C833 Wi | 1 | Yes |