The Dolphin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781987644517)

The Douglas Dolphin was an amphibious flying boat, one of a torrent of aircraft designed and built in the decades following the Great War (World War I) to realize man's long-held dream of flying with the birds. While only 58 Dolphins were built, they served a wide variety of roles: private "air yacht", airliner, military transport, and search and rescue. Wilmington-Catalina Airlines, Ltd bought the first two Dolphins in 1931 to transport passengers from the California mainland to and from Santa Catalina Island. Edward (Eddie) Norris is a fictional character whose life-long dream was aviation and whose first airplane flight was in a Dolphin, when he was fourteen years old. Eddie's story is part of the story of the 1930s, when commercial aviation came of age.

Author: Donald E. Skiff
ISBN-10: 1987644514
ISBN-13: 9781987644517
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.43d