Flying On Instinct by L. D. Cross

Author:L. D. Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
ISBN: 978-1-927051-85-6
Publisher: Heritage House
Published: 2012-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

After the chase, May returned to flying men and equipment into the North as resource companies raced to find oil and minerals. But the vision in May’s eye, injured during his employment at NCR, was deteriorating, and the eye became so painful that he had it removed in 1937. That ended his flying career. With the start of the Second World War and the need for skilled pilots, May managed recruit training in Edmonton as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and formulated techniques used by quick response aerial search-and-rescue teams at crash sites. The techniques worked so well that the US government awarded May the American Medal of Freedom in 1947. Like Oaks and Dickins, he received the McKee Trophy for establishing air services to remote regions and was inducted into Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974. May died of a heart attack while on a hiking trip in Utah in 1952.

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