L. Basil Rowe

Autobiography of Pan American Airlines pilot Captain Basil L. Rowe. An interesting, honest and sometimes humorous story of the glamour days of air travel. Basil Rowe is instrumental in pioneering the clipper routes to South America. He operates the first airline serving the Caribbean and later flies the 'Hump' during the second world war. Perched from the pinnacle of his career as number one Captain at Pan American, he looks back with great nostalgia, missing his early days of barnstorming, show more open cockpits and the freedom from regulations and the tentacles of incompetent airline management. -Goodreads show less

A fascinating and captivating book about the author's experiences during the five million miles plus that he flew from barnstorming in wood and fabric biplanes on to piloting the earliest airliners he experienced the evolution of aviation first hand and went on to transporting troops and supplies during WW II and Korea, and piloting modern (1950s) airliners as the a chief pilot for Pan Am.