Flying Adventures, Volume 1
With 233 Images and 81 Chart Pieces
Table of Contents
Alert - The Top of the World:
Join Bill Morris and Dave Rogers in June/July 1997 while they fly Bill's
Cessna 182 from Kent Island near Annapolis, MD north to Alert at the TOP OF
THE WORLD. Alert, a Canadian Forces Base, the most northern continuously
inhabited place and the most northern airfield in the world is at the
northern end of Ellsmere Island 30 nm west of the tip of Greenland at 82.5
degrees north about 425 nm from the geographic north pole and northeast
of the north magnetic pole.
Alaska and Arctic Canada Adventure: Travel along with
Dave and Bill while they fly the Cessna 182 to Alaska via Edmonton and the
Alaska Highway. Land on a glacier. Continue as far north as Point Barrow,
the most northern point in the United States. Return along the Bering Sea
through Arctic Canada via Inuvik, Yellowknife, Cambridge Bay and Churchill,
Manitoba with a stop at Niagara Falls.
Grise Fiord - The Canadian High Arctic: Adventure
with Dave and Bill as far north as Grise Fiord via Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, and
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Grise Fiord is the
most northern inhabited village in Canada. It is on the southern end of
Ellsmere Island at 76.5 degrees north latitude about 600 nm from the
geographic north pole where a magnetic compass is useless.
Alaska Highway Map
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Flying Adventures, Volume 2
With 225 Images and 101 Chart Pieces
Table of Contents
North Atlantic Odessey: Dave Rogers and Bill Morris
are back to fly Bill's Cessna 182 from Kent Island, Maryland across the
North Atlantic to Bergen, Norway and return. The outbound route is via
Goose Bay, Canada, Narsarsuaq, Greenland and Reykjavik, Iceland with a
return via the Shetland, Islands, Edinburg, Scotland, Dublin, Ireland,
Stornoway, Scotland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Kulusuk, Greenland, Narsarsuaq,
Greenland and Goose Bay, Canada. Fly with them as they nearly come to grief
off the east coast of Greenland.
National Parks and Alaska Flight:
Adventure with Dave Rogers and his wife Nancy as they fly their E33A Bonanza
from Bay Bridge Airport (W29) near Annapolis, MD on a tour of Yellowstone
and Glacier National Parks, then up the Alaska Highway to Tok Junction
and down the Glenn Highway to Talkeetna with a side trip to land on the Ruth
Glacier on Denali (Mt. McKinley). The adventure continues above the Arctic
Circle as far north as Kotzebue, Alaska returning down the Inland Passage
via Juneau and Ketchikan to Washington State and thence back to the East
Coast across the northern United States.
Caribbean Adventure: Rather than going north as is
their wont Bill Morris and Dave Rogers go south to the Caribbean one fine
January visiting the Bahamas, Grand Turk, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Trinidad,
Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, St. Lucia, Antigua and St. Thomas.
Annapolis to Kitty Hawk Record Flight: Join Dave
Rogers and Mike Bangert on a cold, blustery, dark December 1993 morning as
they establish a city-to-city speed record between Annapolis, MD and Kitty
Hawk, NC in Dave's E33A Bonanza. |