Alaska's Father Goose: Captain Gerald A. Bud Bodding: A Career in Aviation

Occasionally tense, frequently humorous, and always straightforward, Alaska's Father Goose is a celebration of flight, a wartime memoir, a history of airline growth, and ultimately a quintessentially Sourdough success story. Nicknamed Father Goose because of his many thousands of hours piloting the Grumman JRF Goose, Captain Gerald A. Bud Bodding's career began in the age of the Curtiss Jenny and lasted through Alaska Airlines' jets. Graduating as a commercial pilot in 1939 from the then premier flying academy in America, the Ryan School of Aeronautics in San Diego, Bodding began a remarkable aviation career as a junior pilot with three of Alaska's flying legends: Shell Simmons, Bob Reeve, and Bob Ellis. Bodding's logbooks read like a roster of the great planes from aviation's Golden Age, and include time in the Ryan STA, Fairchild 71, Lockheed Vega, and Waco YKS-6, among many others.

Author: Gerald Bodding
Publisher: Hancock House
Published: 06/28/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9780888396518
ISBN10: 0888396511
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Nature | Animals | Birds
- Nature | Regional

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