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Aviation Mysteries of the North: Disappearances in Alaska and Canada Paperback – April 1, 2011

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Russia's most famous aviator disappears on a world record flight over the North Pole. A commercial airliner with thirty-eight people is never found. The wreckage of a strategic bomber is discovered years later and hundreds of miles from where it was lost, without its nuclear payload. Two United States Congressmen on a routine campaign tour vanish, spurring accusations of cover-up and conspiracy. These are but a few of the stories detailed in AVIATION MYSTERIES OF THE NORTH. Far distant from major media outlets and occurring over remote and unforgiving wilderness, many of the mysteries have been overlooked or forgotten, until now. Meticulously researched, the accounts are a compilation of historically significant mysteries and large capacity aircraft which have been lost over a span of four decades. From takeoff and in flight until the final moments, through searches and controversy, the factual events are presented with captivating insight. Historical perspectives and aircraft descriptions add an informative background to the text.
AVIATION MYSTERIES OF THE NORTH includes over 180 historic photographs and map illustration, showing the aircraft, flight routes and last known positions.
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    1594331952
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Gregory Liefer is a fifth generation Alaskan, author, historian and former commercial fisherman, army aviator and civilian pilot. He graduated from Wrangell High School in Southeast Alaska and is a graduate of the State University of New York. During his 20-year military career Greg served as a paratrooper and helicopter pilot/instructor pilot, including two tours in Alaska. It was while flying in Alaska that he began researching and writing about aviation history. AVIATION MYSTERIES OF THE NORTH is Liefer's second non-fiction book by Publication Consultants, along with BROKEN WINGS, re-released in 2014. "Missing in Alaska," a story on the disappearance of a Navy patrol plane was featured in Logbook magazine. Greg holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate and has flown thousands of hours in various aircraft. Twenty-three of his thirty-two years flying experience was in Alaska. THE LAST FLIGHT, a novel about flying in Alaska, is due for release in April 2016 by Yucca Publishing.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Publication Consultants; First Edition (April 1, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594331952
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594331954
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
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Greg served as a military pilot/instructor pilot at various stateside and oversea locations, and as a commercial pilot flying in Alaska. He has been researching and writing for thirty years. He holds an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate and has flown thousands of hours in various aircraft. Twenty-three of his thirty-plus years flying experience was in Alaska.

THE LAST FLIGHT, a novel set against the harsh beauty of Alaska, is his first fiction work and scheduled for release in April 2016 by Yucca Publishing.

BROKEN WINGS, an informative account of aviation disasters in Alaska, was released by Publication Consultants in 2014. (A previous version by Hancock House Publishers with a different cover image is of lesser quality and not recommended.)

AVIATION MYSTERIES OF THE NORTH, detailing major aircraft disappearances, was released in 2011.

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Great book! Accurate, informative and entertaining -- even if you are not an Alaskan.
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Great book! Accurate, informative and entertaining -- even if you are not an Alaskan.
As an Alaska aviation historian I am always looking for 'the next new thing.' This is it. Not only was it accurate and was precise in the history, it was a great read. Even if you are not an Alaskan aviation enthusiast, it's a fantastic read!!
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers great, puzzling stories
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2012
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The book says it will tell us about 17 missing aircraft in the Arctic and it delivers. This is backed up with plenty of photos--some great looking planes, some very odd ones (one has propellers behind the wings, instead of in front).

Well written, this was a joy to read and worth the price.

The only (small) quibble is that 14 of the 17 cases are from the 1940s and 1950s. The latest is from 1977--35 years ago. I kept waiting for the modern disappearances. I would still have bought the book if the description had said the cases were "classic" and I wouldn't have been wondering when we get to the 2000s.

But that's a minor grump to a fine job. The author has other works--I hope he's busy putting them up onto Kindle.
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Marilyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book.!
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2014
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Great book if you are interested in "what happened to missing planes" Greg also wrote another book called "Broken Wings" and is
currently working on his 3rd novel. Loved the book....!!!!!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great tales of planes with round engines flying Low Frequency radio ranges. What's not to like?
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2019
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Well written stories that will keep your interest. Plenty of photos, maps and old WAC charts. Perfect winter reading material for any pilot.
I bought two books as gifts. The only minus was that the books were bent in the lower right corner. Whether this happened in shipping or in the vendor's warehouse I don't know. I didn't inspect the books right away and only saw their condition when I went to wrap them for Christmas. Amazon would have replaced them but it was late so I made do and swore to my friends that I hadn't been shopping in the local thrift store.
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Justin Mast
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2014
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Great read! Especially interesting for me since I recently moved to Alaska and hike some of the very same areas mentioned in it.
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Wally Y
3.0 out of 5 stars Could/should have been MUCH better.
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2019
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I haven't finished this yet (2/3 through), but "UNCLE!!!" I can't take it anymore! This book is so mind-numbingly boring and redundant it is nearly lethal. The author took the easy way out: same drill for each accident: short background to the flight; the departure and initial progress of the flight (lots invented: there were no cockpit voice recordings available); weather not as forecast (Whoa! Surprise!!!); the final communication with some ground station; the next requisite report never comes; the call for a search and rescue; who all is involved; weather delays; complications (other missing aircraft to find; search aircraft crashing); possible scenarios of what went wrong (pure speculation, but here, at least, the book has its greatest interest); search reluctantly abandoned; then the I'm sure unintentional Roseanne-Roseannadanna send-off, "Perhaps one day someone will find the remains." Oh mercy. Again, and again, and again. Then there's the errors, lack of explanations, dearth of maps (pull out your sectionals, guys), and the unnecessary proliferation of grainy black and white photos (why do we need to see multiple pics of other airline's version of the crashed airliner? multiple views of Kodiak's runways?). How about the un-defined terms, e.g., "Gibson Girl"radio? For all the stupid redundancy (the single tail fin on a PB4Y-2 ad naseum; williwaws, etc.) you'd think the author could waste a sentence and say what that is. The author tries to "humanize" the same-o stories by describing some cockpit procedures and inventing some cockpit dialogue as if the readers who select a book like this wouldn't know what goes on inside a cockpit. His credibility comes a-tumblin' down when he speaks of DC-4/C-54 pressurization. Now, with some creative thinking and organization that differentiated the selected accidents and their lessons learned, the book might have been more than a cure for insomnia. But that would take a modicum of effort. Save your money.
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Ben Wilkinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017
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Great read if you're into aviation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016
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Very interesting, although tragic.
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Steven C. Levi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Accurate, informative and entertaining -- even if you are not an Alaskan.
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019
As an Alaska aviation historian I am always looking for 'the next new thing.' This is it. Not only was it accurate and was precise in the history, it was a great read. Even if you are not an Alaskan aviation enthusiast, it's a fantastic read!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! Accurate, informative and entertaining -- even if you are not an Alaskan.
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019
As an Alaska aviation historian I am always looking for 'the next new thing.' This is it. Not only was it accurate and was precise in the history, it was a great read. Even if you are not an Alaskan aviation enthusiast, it's a fantastic read!!
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