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About this Book:

An informative and often amusing look at the development of aviation from the early days of flying through the jet age. While regaling his audience with stories of barnstorming risk-takers, rumrunners, early Naval air schools, and descriptions of some of the first passenger flights, Collar shows the gradual development of air safety regulations. He provides details of aircraft accident investigations and findings while also affording a glimpse into how money & politics are more influential than the simple desire for passenger safety, & he discloses some of the policies that interfere with complete air safety.

About the Author:

Charles Collar was a pioneer aviator who helped transform flying from a sport for daredevils into an important form of transportation & shipping. A barnstormer himself as a young man, he decided to join the Bureau of Safety of the Civil Aeronautics Board (later the National Transportation Safety Board). "I decided that since I had done as much unsafe flying as anybody, I might make Air Safety Investigator material... I was quite enthusiastic about working hand in hand with the pilots to make aviation safe." During his 26 year employment with the government, he noted the zeal to promote aviation, and other political manuevering often trumped the safety of the flying public.

Book Review:

"A super little book by a man passionate about flying and establishing the causes of air accidents. Having started a quick, skimming perusal, I was unable to put it down, and finished the work at a single sitting, transfixed." --- Pilot magazine

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