Peter Pigott

'See Jane Fly'

Bog | Engelsk

For all our nostalgia about the Golden Age of Air Travel, it was more mythical than we like to think. As with other forms of transport then, until the 1970s, commercial and military aviation were strictly gendered and racist divisions of labour, both in t

'Fire Eaters'

Bog | Engelsk

The riveting history of how aircraft have transformed the fighting of wildfires. Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run -- until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian &