ACE McCOOL

by Jack Desmarais

The latest book from Happy Landings, “Ace McCool” spoofs the airline industry through the laughter-packed exploits of Down East International, a fictional “fly-by-night” operation based in Moncton, New Brunswick.

The hilarious adventures of Down East began with Ace McCool, an ex-military pilot, flying a de Havilland Dragon Rapide through impossible east coast weather. “The Ace” graduated to DC-3s, Vanguards and then a Boeing 727. Along the way, he collected a rag-tag bunch of supporting characters:

Dim-witted pilot Pete Braddock, “who could have flown the crate an airplane came in.”

The Smarts, an insufferable Englishman, a “polemaster of the first water.”

Churchy Laflamme, “de bes’ copilot of dem all.”

Cowboy McCloskey, the big Albertan who commuted to Down East in his personal CF-104.

Red Starr, the long-haired hippie pilot who flew approaches in bare feet.

These pilots along with copilot T.I. (Totally Inept) Jacobs, cabin crew Stew Jane, Crazy Iris and Mile-High Millie, mechanic Phil Lister and others stumble their way from one slap-stick episode to another.

These are the same tall tales that thousands of aviators laughed along with in Canadian Aviation magazine. Now, for the first time they have been assembled in this collectors’ edition.

Come fly and laugh with Ace McCool of Down East International:

“Moncton Tower, this is Boeing chrome-plated stovepipe triple nickle eightball, ten in the slot, boots on and laced, ready to touch and blow.”

“Boeing chrome-plated stovepipe triple nickle eightball, Moncton Tower. Got you ten in the slot, boots on and laced. You got the nod... to hit the sod.”

$24. (CDN)

BLUE COLLAR PILOTS

by Garth Wallace

Blue Collar Pilots is a lighthearted tribute to the real pilots in aviation, the low-profile, non-airline cockpit grunts who do most of the work: the straight-talking rednecks who dress badly and fly aircraft that don't fly themselves, the blue collar pilots.

Blue collar pilots are bush pilots, agricultural pilots, cargo haulers, helicopter pilots, fighter jocks, search and rescue pilots, United Nation relief pilots, flying instructors, test pilots, medevac pilots, traffic reporters, balloonists, courier pilots, survey pilots, ferry pilots, air show performers, tow pilots, missionary pilots, air racers, patrol pilots, glider pilots, ultralight pilots, police pilots, hurricane trackers, bird doggers, sky writers and water bombers

$9. (CDN)

More flying instructor follies at Derry Air told with the author's usual droll humour.

Happy Landings, paperback, 185 pages

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$14.95 (CDN)

DERRY AIR   by Garth Wallace

Flying students Marathon Melville and Beautiful Bob, aircraft owner Barnacle Bill and linecrew Huey, Duey and Louey are some of the crazy characters in a hilarious new book by Garth Wallace. Derry Air is the fictionalized account of the madcap happenings that Wallace experienced when he taught flying at the airport in Hamilton, Ontario.

"I thought Derry Air was an ordinary flying school," Wallace said.

It wasn’t.

Fly with Wallace as he discovers the wonderfully sarcastic ground school instructor, "Dutch", a horse that flies and the most odd-ball collection of student pilots ever assembled at one airport.

If you like to laugh, Derry Air will not disappoint you.

$12. (CDN)

FLY YELLOW SIDE UP

by Garth Wallace

Why was the son of a ladies underwear salesman flying a battered old floatplane filled with drunken passengers and dead fish? He was discovering the ideal situation for a city slicker pilot to make a fool of himself.

Fly Yellow Side Up is the hilarious story of a suburban flying instructor who moves north seeking the freedom and glory of flying floatplanes. Follow Wallace as he takes a chance job as a bush pilot with no floatplane experience and stumbles his way into the fascinating world of wilderness flying. If you like to laugh, you won’t be disappointed.

$12. (CDN)

THE FLYING CIRCUS

by Garth Wallace

Get ready to laugh again. Happy Landings presents The Flying Circus, the latest collection of funny flying stories by aviation humorist Garth Wallace. If you enjoyed "Fly Yellow Side Up", "Pie In The Sky" and "Derry Air", you’ll love reading The Flying Circus.

Moby Dave, Chainsaw Charlie and Marathon Melville are some of the crazy characters in this new funny book by Canada’s leading aviation humorist. "The Flying Circus" is the fictionalized account of madcap happenings that Wallace experienced when he taught flying at the Niagara Falls District Airport. It is the laugh-a-minute tale of two instructors who start a flying school with loads of enthusiasm, little business sense and no money.

The Flying Circus is 248 pages of fun illustrated by aviation cartoonist Francois Bougie.

$14. (CDN)

PIE IN THE SKY

by Garth Wallace

Laugh with Wallace as the big-city flying instructor learns that the riches to be found running a small-town flying school are in the characters and the memories. In Pie In The Sky, Wallace discovers cowboy agricultural pilots, airport bicycle rodeos, Mennonite buggy buzzing, airplane water skiing and other off-the-wall, aviation adventures.

$12. (CDN)

PAPA X-RAY

by Jim Lang

By 1985, Saskatchewan-born Jim Lang (guitar) and his wife, Ontario’s own Mary Ackroyd (fiddle), had been living their dream in the music business on the road from Los Angeles to Whitehorse to Frankfurt for ten years. During that time, Jim and Mary had a son, Johnny, who, although only an infant, encouraged them to hang up their instruments and slow down a little. So, Jim dusted off his old teaching certificate and headed the family north, way north.

The Lang’s moved to Nahanni Butte, Northwest Territories. Jim took a job teaching in a one-room school. The only year-round access to the isolated community was by airplane so he bought one. Then he learned to fly. Over the next three years, Jim led the family on airborne adventures that would last a lifetime.

Papa X-Ray is the story of those adventures. The book title comes from the registration letters of the trusty old Lang airplane, a Cessna 172, Charlie Foxtrot Uniform Papa X-Ray. It is an exciting, entertaining and amusing tale by a master storyteller. Ride with the family as they fly through the land of the midnight sun and midday moon discovering wildly spectacular scenery and gentle people while living their own sagas of the north.

Papa X-Ray represents a light-hearted change for Jim as an author. His two other books in current international release, "Make Your Own Breaks" and "Great Careers for People Who Want to be Entrepreneurs", deal with the more serious issue of taking control of one’s life and work in an uncertain world.

$12. (CDN)

JACKDAWS
Ken Follett |Penguin 

D-Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity Clairet the stakes have never been higher. Charged with crippling communications in Europe before D-Day, she must pin her hopes on a group of nonprofessionals code-named the Jackdaws. This is a breathtaking novel set in the most dangerous days of World War II. Running Time : Approx. 6 hours 

Audio Cassette |0 pp | ISBN:0142800015 
4x7 |Black and White 

33-088.....our price.....$9.95