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Through the Back Doors of the World in a Ship That Had Wings (Hardcover)

by William Masland (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 361 pages
  • Publisher: Vantage Press (February 1985)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 053305818X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0533058181
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,235,957 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, February 8, 1999
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One of the best books I have every read about early aviation. An adventure you won't soon forget.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Through the Back Doors of the World in a Ship That Had Wings, March 26, 2006
Bill Masland was a pioneer Pan American pilot, and this is his personal memoir of roughly the first half of his flying career, the flying boat era of the Pan Am Clippers.

We follow Masland through U.S. Navy flight training between the wars, when it was extremely difficult to secure a flying billet. Ultimately hired by Andre Priester, Pan Am's technical genius and operations guru, Bill has to qualify through the ranks, first as a mechanic, then as radio operator, navigator, flight engineer, and finally pilot.

The book is written in a style worthy of Ernest K. Gann; and indeed, this book is to Pan American what "Fate is the Hunter" is to American Airlines -- a rare and compelling glimpse into a truly pioneering and still romantic time in aviation.

If you enjoy reading Gann, and are fascinated with the history of the great men and machines that shrunk the world to the literal marble that it is today, you won't want to miss this book.

Captain Tony Vallillo
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