Yankee on The Yangtze
From CNAC
Romance and Adventure Follow the Birth of Aviation
| Nancy Allison Wright |
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| Publisher: Nancy Wright |
| Publish Date: 2012 |
| ISBN-10: 145079131X |
| ISBN-13: 978-1450791311 |
| Binding: Softcover |
| Keywords: Boeing, China, Loening Air Yacht, C.N.A.C., Chennault, Chiang Kai-shek, William Langhorne Bond, U. S. Airmail Service |
Yankee on the Yangtze covers the life and history of Ernest M. Allie Allison. This fascinating and historically significant man learned to fly in WWI with the U.S. Air Corps. Later he flew the first U.S. transcontinental route with the U.S. Air Mail Service and helped open China to commercial aviation in 1929 as Operations Manager for China National Aviation Corporation.
While in China he made the inaugural Hankou to Shanghai flight, surveyed new air routes, and opened Yangtze Gorges for tourism. While in China he also worked with General Clare Chennault, became advisor to the Aeronautical Commission, and flew for Chiang Kai-shek before and during the Japanese invasion.
Upon his return to the U.S. he worked for Boeing and was the chief test pilot for B-29. He returned to China in 1947 as C.N.A.C. Operations Manager and Vice-President-elect, until 1949 when Mao Zedong declared Peoples Republic. Yankee on the Yangtze tells of these exploits of and the accomplishments by Ernest M. Allie Allison.