Add this copy of Flying the Oceans: a Pilot's Story of Pan Am, 1935-1955 to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Orrin Schwab - BOOKS rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Providence, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Jason Aronson Inc.
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Very Good-in Good+ dust jacket. 0876686323. Light wear to the spine edges and corners. The dust jacket has small chips and tears to the edges.; 205 pages.
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Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean text-NO writing, NO highlighting to text. Some light wear to book. Very good-. Dust jacket has some light wear with a 3/4" closed tear to head of front panel. VG-/VG-reading copy.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0876686323. Memoirs of pilot Horace Brock who flew the Pan Am Clippers, near fine in very good dust jacket, in fresh archival sleeve; very light edgewear to jacket else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; text is clean and bright, in the elusive dust jacket; stated third edition with a complete number line so a first thus of the third edition? ; photos on request; 323 pages.
This account of a flying career with Pan Am in its glory years went through several edns and deserves still to be in print: pity someone's not picked it up in paperback. Pilot Horace Brock flew the oceans with a number of seaplanes--most notably the Boeing 314 Clipper series--Atlantic, Pacific, north and south runs around the world. Yale and Harvard Law School educated, the author is an intelligent and articulate voice for many remarkable people--notably pilots and crews---during the beginning of trans-oceanic passenger service, which is something we take for granted now. We learn here how amazingly rigorous Pan Am training and testing was--and why it needed to be. And since he went on into Pan Am management, Brock is able to explain to us much of the business and personality dynamics of Juan Trippe's company: its rise to the canonic status it still enjoys (as represented today in airmiles logos) for unmatched luxury air travel; its decline. We learn here of the cargo--notably airmail--basis of the business, the continuing passenger service out of neutral Ireland and Portugal during WWII, but also its important use for military cargo, via S. America, to North African fronts. WWII doomed the flying boats, not because of he invention of new planes (the DCs and the Lockheed Constellation were already on the way) but because of the widespread building of airfields throughout the world. Though we may mourn the quick passage of the 314 Clippers, and other large seaplanes, Brock makes clear that the danger of flying them and the high levels of skill in personnel they required limited their history. As in all most such accounts, the organization of the book is chronological, tied to an autobiography and episodic. But Brock is never self-indulgent or boring. His account is free of the sentimentality, trumped-up patriotism, list of grievances, self-absortion that often mar autobiographical perspectives of historical topics.
