Bent Props and Blow Pots collects firsthand memories from early 1930s northern bush flying, drawn from meticulous journals and an extensive photo record. The author worked as an air engineer and often took the right-hand seat on flights across Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean.

The book pairs technical detail—warming engines, improvised repairs and emergency landings—with dramatic rescue missions and moments of dry humour. Accounts cover lost aircraft over unmapped muskeg, blizzard landings on frozen pothole lakes and resourceful recoveries in remote terrain.

Readers with an interest in aviation history, Arctic exploration or pilot memoirs will find practical insight, vivid atmosphere and documentary photographs that preserve the people and machines of an earlier era.

Highlights

• Firsthand 1930s bush-flying accounts
• Search-and-rescue and field repairs
• Photographic record from Fort McMurray to the Arctic

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