Happy Landings aviation humor

 
The Garth Wallace series of humorous flying stories
Garth Wallace flew for 12,000 hours as a bush pilot, charter pilot, flying instructor and corporate pilot in Canada. His laughter-filled books are based on the characters he met and the fun flights he survived.

"Local airports attract fun lovers, adventurers and eccentrics from all walks of life. I’d go to the airport smiling every day."

 

The following are easy-to-read, fun-filled books of short stories.
Sample chapters are provided.
Fly Yellow Side Up


Fly Yellow Side Up
What was the son of a ladies underwear salesman doing flying a battered old floatplane filled with drunken passengers and dead fish? He was trying to be bush pilot, the ideal situation for a city slicker flier to make a fool of himself.
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - 143 pages of float flying fun
$16.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S.         ORDER BOOKS HERE

Pie In The Sky
Pie In The Sky
Discover cowboy agricultural pilots, airplane water skiing, Mennonite buggy buzzing, airport rodeos and other off-the-wall small-town aviation tales. 
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)

Soft cover - 146 pages of country flying humour
$16.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE
Cockpit Follies
Cockpit Follies
Garth Wallace’s hilarious tales of his days teaching flying in the City of Derry. Customers Bull Muldoone, Marathon Melville and Skid Sicamore are joined by more crazy characters including Edgar the Astronaut and Elmer the Snitch.
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - 185 pages brought to life by illustrator Francois Bougie
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE
The Flying Circus
The Flying Circus
Laugh-a-minute yarns of two flying instructors starting their own school
with loads of enthusiasm, little business sense and no money.

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Soft cover - 248 pages of laughs with fun drawings by Francois Bougie
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE

If Clouds Could Talk
 
The author's unique brand of humour reaches new heights with this hilarious look at aerobatics and corporate aviation, together. Fly eye-to-eye with the Statue of Liberty and learn stunt flying from a sadistic mortician.
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - Illustrated by the visual genius of Francois Bougie
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE

You'd Fly Laughing Too
This time Wallace adds a Piper Super Cub to his cast of crazy characters. The laughter builds as the author flies in and out of trouble around the industrialized Great Lakes, a region obviously not ready for land-anywhere pilots. 
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - 200 pages - highlights depicted by Francois Bougie
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE

Wing Nuts
The characters and fun stories in Wing Nuts are testaments to the many more belly laughs to be found in aviation. Fly to Oshkosh WI in a Stearman and drink beer with EAA founder Paul Poberezny.
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - 200 pages with illustrations
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE

The Smile High Club
THE LATEST FROM GARTH WALLACE
The flying school students include a yellow-eyed, lumberjack, a bashful bootlegger, a prattling plant lady and a blind man. The customers filled the airport with fun and laughter every day.
(Click on book cover for sample chapter)
Soft cover - 200 pages - Illustrated by Francois Bougie
$18.95 CDN / $18.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE

More aviation humour from Happy Landings
Papa X-ray
Papa X-Ray  by Jim Lang
Heartwarming story of a greenhorn pilot, an old Cessna 172 and a trusting family flying in Canada's most rugged country, The Northwest Territories.
 (Click on book cover for sample chapter)
$16.95 CDN / $16.95 U.S.        ORDER BOOKS HERE
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MORE FUN READING - Aviation articles by Garth Wallace
The following tongue-in-cheek aviation columns appeared in COPA Flight
"Read them here with my compliments." 
Garth

1/ Do you want a punch in the nose? 16/ Remembering bush flying
2/ What do airport workers say when they see you coming? 17/ Why buy an airplane?
3/ My favorite mentor 18/ Enjoy being an old pilot
4/ Why we fly: what draws us to flying and how does it hold a lifelong interest? 19/ Flying Awake
5/ Pilots who think they’re superior need another opinion 20/ Why value an airport
6/ Treasure hunting in the Bahamas 21/ The smallest airport
7/ Thirteen questions, no answers 22/ The regulations and the laws
8/ Where are the women? 23/ How to look stupid without even flying
9/ Ten spot landings 24/ Pilots are optimists
10/ These are the good old days 25/ You're a real recreational pilot if:
11/ The gender spending gap 26/ In praise of Henrys everywhere
12/ In praise of tail-draggers 27/ Have flying instructors changed?
13/ Are you talking to me? 28/ Do insomniacs make good pilots?
14/ Five things your flying instructor never taught you  
15/ The Idiot’s Guide to Flying  

 

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