Now three-quarters of the runway were left behind; the far end was expanding sideways as it drew closer, with huge snow- covered boulders beyond. Forty knots... thirty knots... The end of the runway was now only six hundred feet away, and still coming on fast... Now the plane began to bounce on the rough dirt at the end of the runway; five hundred feet... four hundred... The boulders were looming ominously ahead, like a shark's teeth; the plane was heading straight for them.
When a routine scientific mission in the Canadian Arctic goes terribly wrong and one of the men is badly hurt, his only hope for survival is to have a surgeon airlifted to the remote, deserted island where he is located. With a fierce polar cyclone closing in
and the Canadian helicopters grounded due to bad weather, it is up to the rescue pilot Heather Mallory of the US Civil Air Patrol,
and her husband Rick Floyd, a field surgeon in the Army, to carry
out a desperate plan: they must fly in a twin-engine light airplane
to the very limits of its maximum range, where Rick is to parachute to the island in high winds and perform the life-saving surgery, while Heather tries to find a nearby airfield in heavy fog and with her fuel supply nearly exhausted. Will they succeed in saving the man's life... or will they, too, end up dead?
Dennis Kitainik is a lifelong aviation enthusiast, a self-taught chemist and historian, an author and songwriter, and above all an
American patriot. He lives in California, where he is currently studying chemistry at San Jose State University.
When a routine scientific mission in the Canadian Arctic goes terribly wrong and one of the men is badly hurt, his only hope for survival is to have a surgeon airlifted to the remote, deserted island where he is located. With a fierce polar cyclone closing in
and the Canadian helicopters grounded due to bad weather, it is up to the rescue pilot Heather Mallory of the US Civil Air Patrol,
and her husband Rick Floyd, a field surgeon in the Army, to carry
out a desperate plan: they must fly in a twin-engine light airplane
to the very limits of its maximum range, where Rick is to parachute to the island in high winds and perform the life-saving surgery, while Heather tries to find a nearby airfield in heavy fog and with her fuel supply nearly exhausted. Will they succeed in saving the man's life... or will they, too, end up dead?
Dennis Kitainik is a lifelong aviation enthusiast, a self-taught chemist and historian, an author and songwriter, and above all an
American patriot. He lives in California, where he is currently studying chemistry at San Jose State University.
