Author: HOFFMAN, CARL
Title: Hunting Warbirds the Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II
Description: New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345436172. Small remainder dot on bottom page edges.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 245 pages; "“Winged treasure” they call them–the lost remains of the great American fighter planes and bombers that won World War II. Hellcats and Superfortresses, Corsairs and Dauntlesses. Produced by the thousands at the height of the war, and then cast off as scrap in the decades that followed, these warbirds are now worth literally anything–fortunes, families, even lives–to the people who search for them. Like many men, writer Carl Hoffman was bitten by the warbird bug as a child. But he never imagined that he would one day witness and participate in a heroic adventure himself–the most audacious warbird rescue attempt of all time.The crash of the Kee Bird B-29 Superfortress made banner headlines in 1947 when a team of Air Force pilots pulled off the near-miraculous feat of locating the wreck in Greenland and snatching its stranded crew from the teeth of the arctic winter. For nearly half a century, the almost perfectly intact warbird lay abandoned on a lake of ice–but not forgotten. Fifty years later, with collectors paying upward of a million dollars for salvageable World War II planes, two intense fanatics, legendary test pilot Darryl Greenaymer and starry-eyed salvage wizard Gary Larkins, hatched the insane idea of launching an expedition to Greenland to find the Kee Bird, bring it back to life, and fly it out. ". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0345436172 Kee bird Greenland AVIATION Militaria
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Title: Hunting Warbirds the Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War II
Description: New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345436172. Small remainder dot on bottom page edges.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 245 pages; "“Winged treasure” they call them–the lost remains of the great American fighter planes and bombers that won World War II. Hellcats and Superfortresses, Corsairs and Dauntlesses. Produced by the thousands at the height of the war, and then cast off as scrap in the decades that followed, these warbirds are now worth literally anything–fortunes, families, even lives–to the people who search for them. Like many men, writer Carl Hoffman was bitten by the warbird bug as a child. But he never imagined that he would one day witness and participate in a heroic adventure himself–the most audacious warbird rescue attempt of all time.The crash of the Kee Bird B-29 Superfortress made banner headlines in 1947 when a team of Air Force pilots pulled off the near-miraculous feat of locating the wreck in Greenland and snatching its stranded crew from the teeth of the arctic winter. For nearly half a century, the almost perfectly intact warbird lay abandoned on a lake of ice–but not forgotten. Fifty years later, with collectors paying upward of a million dollars for salvageable World War II planes, two intense fanatics, legendary test pilot Darryl Greenaymer and starry-eyed salvage wizard Gary Larkins, hatched the insane idea of launching an expedition to Greenland to find the Kee Bird, bring it back to life, and fly it out. ". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0345436172 Kee bird Greenland AVIATION Militaria
Price: US$ 16.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 18431
- Book number: 18431
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