Our Authors
Peter Barratt
Peter Barratt is a high time helicopter pilot who founded West Coast Helicopters in Port McNeill BC and performed other great feats like inventing heli-fishing with Nimmo Bay Resort. Pete is now spending a little more time with the latter skill as can be noticed.
Mike Davenport
Mike Davenport is a sport aviator and a columnist for 3 recreational flying magazines. If you can’t find him at home check out the hangars at the airport in Langley BC — the last of the grassroots airfields — you will find Mike hanging out rebuilding something classic or messing round with his family Stinson.
Jack Ireland
Jack Ireland’s book, OTTER TALES, is a record of an amazing life as a bush pilot in Canada’s eastern provinces and the arctic where the single and twin Otters became his popular steed. Chosen by Transport Canada as an aviation inspector, Jack went on to become the definitive Rocket Man when he was appointed to bring regulations to Rocket launches in Canadian space.
Chris Weicht
Chris Weicht’s book, RED STAR OVER CANADA is the result of some sleuthing by the pilot during flights into a favourite destination of Bella Bella on the British Columbia mid- coast. Chris has written several significant aviation histories but this one had his attention for many years before the answers all fell into place. Now retired in Sechelt B.C. Weicht put together the account of the 1937 deceits of the Soviet Union and saw some present day threats to Canada’s Arctic from Putin’s Russia.
Bill Yearwood
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board Investigator, Bill Yearwood, the recipient of many awards for his years of dedication to aviation safety, has put it all into print with his book titled “Getting It.” Bill’s accolades result from his penchant for going beyond the obvious in determining the cause and taking actions with operators, pilots, AMEs and aircraft builders so that the investigation becomes a tool for prevention. “Getting It” is a veritable text book on aviation safety.
Rick Found
Rick Found retired from Air Canada as a Captain on 727s and Airbus A320s but you can trace his life in airplanes back to what he calls, “growing up on the hangar floor,” being the hangar floor of Found Brothers Aviation, his family’s long time creation of the Found FBA-2C Bush Hawk. Of course Rick wrote the book on that family adventure and now his, The Desire to Fly, tells his personal story and reveals the boatbuilder, sailor and financial guru imbedded in that aviator. A different kind of bio with Rick’s love of not just weather-related science but some interesting reflections on the variety of individuals occupying the right and left seat encountered along his life’s journey.
Jim Pearce
Figuratively speaking, Jimbo Pearce swam his way into the left seat of an airplane and ended up flying in his father’s footsteps (or should that read in his father’s contrails?) Flying for several significant airlines in Canada and in exotic places abroad such as the Maldives, the South Pole and even Prince Rupert and Alert Bay plus our author’s favourite place to gas up—Luxor, Egypt, Jim Pearce admits that swimming is how it all began. You will have to read his book to visit the near championship status achieved by our writer’s dive into the Olympic pool before he settled for airplanes as a career. Jim soon became Jimbo to his colleagues here in Canada and abroad, so what better name to grace his exciting memoire of many great years in the sky.
Rien van Tilborg
Rien van Tilborg remembers well the night Flight 810 was lost. He was an 11 years old living on a farm in Sumas Prairie, halfway between Abbotsford and Chilliwack and 30+ miles west of the crash site.
The loss of Flight 810 stayed with him over the years and when he retired in 2000, he decided to find out if anything had been written about the event. All he found were two books that devoted a chapter to the crash. That’s when he decided to research the tragedy and record his findings. It became an unforgettable journey.
Blaine Bjarnarson
Blaine Bjarnarson – Once in the left seat of a Twin Otter on floats, Blaine decided that was the airplane of his choice. Fortunately, there are a lot of them in service all over the world and he was soon flying them in exotic places including the Maldives, Croatia, contracts in the Middle East and even familiar places like Yellowknife and LaRonge. Blaine, who hails from Manitoba, is currently a resident of Thailand where he owns a spa-like tourist hotel that, like him, is awaiting the end of Covid to get back into business and our pilot-entrpreneur into the air once more. We hear that a possible opening in Bali is now on his list of hopeful postings as his new, exciting book hits the bookshelves of his many international colleagues.
Terry McEvoy
You don’t put 28000 hours in your log book without just a few adventures to relate from a lifetime in aviation. As an ATR pilot who just happens to have flown 175 different types, fixed and rotary wing. Terry McEvoy, also sports an M license as an AME. When he wasn’t in the left seat he was bending wrenches in the maintenance hangar and now that retirement looks imminent, is still building something in the garage that will do a roll off the top for himself, his son, his grandson and a few granddaughters who are all employed airline pilots following in gramp’s shoes as did the man himself, whose father and step father were both pilots. Terry’s book, NO ORDINARY DAYS, is a dizzying overview of a fabulous aviation career starting in the bush and the arctic and ending in a world-girdling flight in the fastest biz-jet in the business—the Citation ten (X). You might take a flashlight to bed with you with this book because you won’t put it down until you have slid once more into the left seat and climbed to 51000 for a little afternoon flight to anywhere in the world’s skies.
Graham Ward
Graham Ward is an artist—a digital artist who has designed some spectacular covers for our author’s books. The cover shot of a Staggerwing Beech on People Places and Planes used to be a red airplane with an N number on the fuselage and under one wing. Graham changed the paint job and the registration to suit Mike’s book. Then our aviation enthusiast artist and stock car racer and motorcyclist designed the cover photo for the hardcover book TCA810 for Rien van Tilbog’s classic title. Yes that’s a painting of a North Star and inside the book a Piasecki Helicopter (the flying banana) and in one of Schofield’s books, now out of print, a Beaver on floats in the required colour tail logo and CF registration. You name it, this man is a magician and deserves high praise from all our authors. You never know, Graham may be the fine hand behind our next award-winning cover!
Our Authors
Peter Barratt
Peter Barratt is a high time helicopter pilot who founded West Coast Helicopters in Port McNeill BC and performed other great feats like inventing heli-fishing with Nimmo Bay Resort. Pete is now spending a little more time with the latter skill as can be noticed.
Mike Davenport
Mike Davenport is a sport aviator and a columnist for 3 recreational flying magazines. If you can’t find him at home check out the hangars at the airport in Langley BC — the last of the grassroots airfields — you will find Mike hanging out rebuilding something classic or messing round with his family Stinson.
Jack Ireland
Jack Ireland’s book, OTTER TALES, is a record of an amazing life as a bush pilot in Canada’s eastern provinces and the arctic where the single and twin Otters became his popular steed. Chosen by Transport Canada as an aviation inspector, Jack went on to become the definitive Rocket Man when he was appointed to bring regulations to Rocket launches in Canadian space.
Jim Pearce
Figuratively speaking, Jimbo Pearse swam his way into the left seat of an airplane and ended up flying in his father’s footsteps (or should that read in his father’s contrails?) Flying for several significant airlines in Canada and in exotic places abroad such as the Maldives, the South Pole and even Prince Rupert and Alert Bay plus our author’s favourite place to gas up—Luxor, Egypt, Jim Pearse admits that swimming is how it all began. You will have to read his book to visit the near championship status achieved by our writer’s dive into the Olympic pool before he settled for airplanes as a career. Jim soon became Jimbo to his colleagues here in Canada and abroad, so what better name to grace his exciting memoire of many great years in the sky.
Bill Yearwood
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board Investigator, Bill Yearwood, the recipient of many awards for his years of dedication to aviation safety, has put it all into print with his book titled “Getting It.” Bill’s accolades result from his penchant for going beyond the obvious in determining the cause and taking actions with operators, pilots, AMEs and aircraft builders so that the investigation becomes a tool for prevention. “Getting It” is a veritable text book on aviation safety.
Rick Found
Rick Found retired from Air Canada as a Captain on 727s and Airbus A320s but you can trace his life in airplanes back to what he calls, “growing up on the hangar floor,” being the hangar floor of Found Brothers Aviation, his family’s long time creation of the Found FBA-2C Bush Hawk. Of course Rick wrote the book on that family adventure and now his, The Desire to Fly, tells his personal story and reveals the boatbuilder, sailor and financial guru imbedded in that aviator. A different kind of bio with Rick’s love of not just weather-related science but some interesting reflections on the variety of individuals occupying the right and left seat encountered along his life’s journey.
Chris Weicht
Chris Weicht’s book, RED STAR OVER CANADA is the result of some sleuthing by the pilot during flights into a favourite destination of Bella Bella on the British Columbia mid- coast. Chris has written several significant aviation histories but this one had his attention for many years before the answers all fell into place. Now retired in Sechelt B.C. Weicht put together the account of the 1937 deceits of the Soviet Union and saw some present day threats to Canada’s Arctic from Putin’s Russia.
Rien van Tilborg
Rien van Tilborg remembers well the night Flight 810 was lost. He was an 11 years old living on a farm in Sumas Prairie, halfway between Abbotsford and Chilliwack and 30+ miles west of the crash site.
The loss of Flight 810 stayed with him over the years and when he retired in 2000, he decided to find out if anything had been written about the event. All he found were two books that devoted a chapter to the crash. That’s when he decided to research the tragedy and record his findings. It became an unforgettable journey.
Blaine Bjarnarson
Blaine Bjarnarson – Once in the left seat of a Twin Otter on floats, Blaine decided that was the airplane of his choice. Fortunately, there are a lot of them in service all over the world and he was soon flying them in exotic places including the Maldives, Croatia, contracts in the Middle East and even familiar places like Yellowknife and LaRonge. Blaine, who hails from Manitoba, is currently a resident of Thailand where he owns a spa-like tourist hotel that, like him, is awaiting the end of Covid to get back into business and our pilot-entrpreneur into the air once more. We hear that a possible opening in Bali is now on his list of hopeful postings as his new, exciting book hits the bookshelves of his many international colleagues.
Graham Ward
Graham Ward is an artist—a digital artist who has designed some spectacular covers for our author’s books. The cover shot of a Staggerwing Beech on People Places and Planes used to be a red airplane with an N number on the fuselage and under one wing. Graham changed the paint job and the registration to suit Mike’s book. Then our aviation enthusiast artist and stock car racer and motorcyclist designed the cover photo for the hardcover book TCA810 for Rien van Tilbog’s classic title. Yes that’s a painting of a North Star and inside the book a Piasecki Helicopter (the flying banana) and in one of Schofield’s books, now out of print, a Beaver on floats in the required colour tail logo and CF registration. You name it, this man is a magician and deserves high praise from all our authors. You never know, Graham may be the fine hand behind our next award-winning cover!
Terry McEvoy
You don’t put 28000 hours in your log book without just a few adventures to relate from a lifetime in aviation. As an ATR pilot who just happens to have flown 175 different types, fixed and rotary wing. Terry McEvoy, also sports an M license as an AME. When he wasn’t in the left seat he was bending wrenches in the maintenance hangar and now that retirement looks imminent, is still building something in the garage that will do a roll off the top for himself, his son, his grandson and a few granddaughters who are all employed airline pilots following in gramp’s shoes as did the man himself, whose father and step father were both pilots. Terry’s book, NO ORDINARY DAYS, is a dizzying overview of a fabulous aviation career starting in the bush and the arctic and ending in a world-girdling flight in the fastest biz-jet in the business—the Citation ten (X). You might take a flashlight to bed with you with this book because you won’t put it down until you have slid once more into the left seat and climbed to 51000 for a little afternoon flight to anywhere in the world’s skies.