Winging It!

Mark Fisher is the founder of the Spring Integration project. Currently at VMware, he continues to lead the development of Spring Integration while exploring the intersection of big data and messaging. He has been a committer on a number of Spring projects, including the Spring Framework itself and Spring AMQP, which he cofounded. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups about messaging, data, integration, and cloud computing.

• Foreword by Carmen Jefford Fisher                             Page 11Part 1: Riding the Grub Line                                   Pages 15 - 58Becoming a Pilot, The Voice from the Sky,Riding the Grub Line, Barnstorming,Coyote Slayer, Crossroads, Broken Bow,Flying the Weather, Hastings, Kelly One & Kelly Two,Part 2: Foul-Weather Flyer                                       Pages 59 - 96Nome, Working the Mines, Henry Gumm Goes South,and Brother Hansen Returns Home, To Cordova in the Vega,Foul-Weather Flyer, The CrackupsPart 3: There's More to the Job than Flying       Pages 97 - 152The Girls and the Godfather, Gold Fever,The Reindeer Study, Progress in the Cockpit,Crash on the Darby Mountains, Groping up theYukon, Guiding the Columbia, Evacuation of Jack Devine,Stinson-A Trimotor, The Marshall and Miss Alaska,Missing Pilots, The Reindeer Acquisition.Part 4: Patrol Pilot                                                   Pages 153 - 196Signed on with the CAA, General Buckner,DLAND at West Ruby,  Injured Man Aboard,War, The Queen Mary, Horning's Ordeal,The Boeing 247, A Tale of Two Cessnas,Part 5: King Chris                                                   Pages 197 - 235King Chris, Wartime Flight to Attu,A Night at North Shore Umnak, The Waipio Inveiglement,Shungnak Snafu, Torture Flight to Seattle, SummerLanding, CAA Christmas, They Come and They Go,Part 6: Gold Medalist                                            Pages 236 - 285Hinchinbrook Beach Landing, Tragedy atPort Heiden, Fuel Oil Blues, The Rescueof Cliff Uzzell, Juneau Backfire, The Black Cat'sPath, Taylor Weather, Fiddling Around in Nome,Gold MedalistPart 7: Into the Jet Age                                        Pages 286 - 314N-123, Trouble in the C-123, The Flying X-Rays,Saberliner Jet School, McKinley Rescue,Back to Nome on the IditarodIndex                                                                         Pages 315 - 319Epitaph: Jack Jefford 1910 - 1979                       Page 320

“…a superb portrait of flying when pilots were as tough as their professional environment.” –Ernest K. Gann “…some of the most fascinating stories ever to come out of Alaska….gripping tales of early bush flying…the colorful story of one of the great early pilots” –Lowell Thomas, Jr.