McVicars' Flying Circus: The Companion to Don McVicar's Aviation Memoirs($11.99Value)

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Captain Donald McVicar was a true aviation pioneer. He lived boldly in the Golden Age of Aviation. He earned his private pilot’s license at 21 in 1936, flying a deHavilland Moth in his homeland of Alberta, Canada. He mastered dozens of types of aircraft in his long, turbulent aviation career. He joined the Royal Air Force Ferry Command in 1941 as a civilian pilot. As a Captain-Navigator, and already an experienced radio operator when he was accepted, he was known as a “triple threat” who was awarded the King’s Commendation and later the Order of the British Empire for his “Valuable Services in the Air.” After the war, he founded his own airline, World Wide Airways, and ran it for two decades from Dorval airport near Montreal, Quebec, base of Ferry Command, until essentially forced out of business by political pressure from on high. But then Capt. McVicar had the guts to do what many fail to do: write it all down with vigor and honesty and publish it! Beginning with Ferry Command in 1981, his books were then, and still are, well-regarded by the aviation community and anyone who enjoys a swashbuckling yarn peopled with brave aviators and beautiful women. After his death, his daughter Donna, an editor, writer, magazine designer and artist, vowed to one day bring them back into the world. Thanks to the Kindle platform, she has been able to do just that! Out of print for years, now for the first time, all nine volumes of his memoirs are available in the same format, Kindle ebooks for only $5.99 each! Yet, as handy and wonderful as ebooks are, who doesn't love the look and feel of a physical book? Especially when it's developed more like a magazine, 8-1/2" by 11" so that some classic photos and other historic material may now be viewed on a full page. Donna has created this commemorative publication to serve as the companion and guide to her father’s classic aviation memoirs, featuring excerpts and complete chapters from all nine books, rare and classic photos, some perhaps never before published, her line drawings of aircraft, and treasures from the McVicar archives dating from WW2-1965 that her father saved through the years for its historical value.