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Barnstorming To Air Safety
By Charles S. Collar
$14.95 trade paperback, 166 pages
ISBN 0-9667784-0-5
Pilot Magazine says:
“A super little book by a man passionate about flying and establishing the causes of air accidents. Having started a quick, skimming perusal, I was unable to put it down, and finished the work at a single sitting, transfixed. I would recommend it not only for the reader’s enjoyment and edification, but because Collar’s life deserves wider recognition.”
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“Some of the things Collar writes about have been known or suspected by pilots for years. It’s good to have those suspicions confirmed by an NTSB chief...”
-- N.M., a reader in South Florida
“One of the best aviation books I’ve ever read!”
Don Romer, Retired Air Force pilot
Collar provides his readers with details of aircraft accident investigations and findings while also affording a glimpse into how the government operates. During his 26 year employment with the government, he began to see that money and politics were more influential than the simple desire for the safety of the flying public, and he discloses some of the policies that interfere with complete air safety.
While regaling his audience with stories of barnstorming risk-takers, rum-runners, early Naval air schools and descriptions of some of the first passenger flights, Collar shows the slow development of air safety regulations. A barnstormer himself as a young man, Collar decided to join the Bureau of Safety of the Civil Aeronautics Board (now the National Transportation Safety Board), saying, “I decided that since I had done as much unsafe flying as anybody, I might make Air Safety Investigator material... I was quite enthusiastic about working hand in hand with the pilots and the aviation industry to make aviation safe.”
