OUR SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS
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Jack Schofield is our Editor and illustrator/designer. He is the author of 4 books displayed in our store. Jack also does the marketing and advertising and sweeps the floor on the weekends.
Dennis Currie is a retired Captain with Air Canada having started his airline career wth PWA on Hercules freighters. He flies Cessna seaplanes hunting for herring on his off days when he isn't selling books. Dennis has the soul of a poet.
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.
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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.
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.
Craig Murray is not an aviator but he does operate 4 Stars from floating landing pads at Nimmo Bay Resort You might not be able to read the text on his photo — a truth about Nimmo Bay Resort — a fabulous wilderness adventure magnificently recorded in his book, Finding Nimmo.
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Tim Cole's book TIGHT FLOATS AND TAILWINDS was printed earlier in 2020 and Sold Out but is now BACK IN PRINT— A very successful book and
a great read. Contact Tim to obtain your copy now—This book MOVES!! Best to Order Now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Michael Bellamy Author of CROSSWINDS - With pilot log books spanning almost sixty years, recording a myriad of airplanes and helicopters. Michael Bellamy's career has compelled him to write; not about himself but rather the memorable characters he encountered along the way that inspired this novel and of course those wonderful machines of flight.
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!
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.