At the end of World War Two, Don McVicar set up World Wide Aviation in Montreal and successfully entered the fiercely competitive business of ferrying both new and patched-up aircraft around the world, mostly for the newly emerging national airlines in Europe.
Then, while a spectator at the U.S. National Air Races in 1947, an idea was born. Surely a de Havilland Mosquito would have a chance? The author's entertaining and exciting account of how he sought, bought and entered a Mosquito for the Bendix race in 1948 is skilfully interwoven with the story of his ferrying business which reached 15 countries on 4 continents.
Mosquito Racer is in the same entertaining style and chronologically follows the authors previous books, Ferry Command, North Atlantic Cat and A Change of Wings.
Chapter 1
Dakotas by the Dozen
Chapter 2
Freeze-up and Break up
Chapter 3
The World-Wide Counselling Service
Chapter 4
Ferry Command Reborn
Chanter 5
Chairborne
Chapter 6
Props and Princesses
Chapter 7
Where's the Whisky?
Chapter 8
In Aviation There are Some Nice People . . .
Chapter 9
. . . But in Aviation There are Also Some Not
So Nice People
Chapter 10
From Triumph to Tragedy
Chapter 11
The World is Small When You Fly a Beechcraft
Chapter 12
My Favourite Co-pilot
Chapter 13
Consolidated Vultee
Chapter 14
From California to Cleveland
Chapter 15
The National Air Races
Chapter 16
The Chicken Coop
Chapter 17
A Bonanza Sales Safari
Chapter 18
You Can't Win 'Em All
Chapter 19
Fox Zebra Charlie
Chapter 20
Mosquito Madness
Chapter 21
Hurdles
Chapter 22
Bendix Bound
Chapter 23
Bendix Rebound