Flying On Instinct (15 page)

L. D. Cross is an Ottawa writer and member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), the Canadian Authors Association (CAA) and the Creative Non-Fiction Collective (CNFC). Her business and lifestyle articles have appeared in Canada and the US. Her publication credits include magazines such as
WeddingBells, Home Business Report, Legion Magazine, Profit Magazine, enRoute, AmericanStyle, Fifty-Five Plus, Health Naturally, Antiques!, Airborn
and
This Country Canada
as well as the
Globe and Mail
newspaper.

Her creative non-fiction has been recognized by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Ottawa Chapter, EXCEL Awards for features and editorial writing, as well as the National Mature Media Awards for her articles about seniors. In 2011, her book
The Underground Railroad: The Long Journey to Freedom in Canada
received the inaugural Ontario Historical Society Huguenot Award honouring “the best book published in Ontario in the past three years which has brought public awareness to the principles of freedom of conscience and freedom of thought.” She is also a co-author of
Inside Outside: In Conversation with a Doctor and a Clothing Designer
and
Marriage is a Business
.

Code Name Habbakuk
A Secret Ship Made of Ice

By late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships, and Prime Minister Churchill had to find a solution to the carnage. Eccentric inventor and amateur spy Geoffrey Pyke proposed an invincible secret weapon: immense aircraft carriers built of ice that would roam the mid-Atlantic to protect Allied convoys from predatory U-boats. This is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Project Habbakuk and how the British Royal Navy, the National Research Council of Canada and a workforce of conscientious objectors tested the strange concept in the Canadian Rockies.

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Treasure Under the Tundra
Canada's Arctic Diamonds

It is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the magnificent and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought diamonds could even be found in Canada—no one except Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson, who uncovered diamond-rich kimberlite in the Barrens at Point Lake in the Northwest Territories. Their spectacular find caused great excitement in international diamond circles and sparked the largest claim-staking rush in Canada since the 1896 Klondike gold rush. Here is the dramatic tale of two determined geologists who risked all and triumphed over incredible odds.

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Copyright © 2012 L.D. Cross

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Cross, L. D. (L. Dyan), 1949–

       Flying on instinct: Canada's bush pilot pioneers / L.D. Cross.

(Amazing stories)
Electronic monograph in multiple formats.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 978-1-927051-85-6 (HTML). ISBN 978-1-927051-86-3 (PDF).

       1. Bush pilots—Canada—History.  2. Aeronautics—Canada—History.  I. Title.  II. Series: Amazing stories (Victoria, B.C.: Online).

TL523.C76 2012                629.130971                C2012-904124-6

Series editor: Lesley Reynolds
Proofreader: Liesbeth Leatherbarrow

Cover photo: “Bob Cockeram's Noorduyn Norseman MK II
Ruth IV
,” by Robert W. Bradford, courtesy of Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa.

Heritage House acknowledges the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF), Canada Council for the Arts and the province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.