Noel Merrill Wien: Born to Fly

The Wien family is one of the royal families of Alaska with a well-respected, well-connected, long history of amazing aviation feats. Includes 50 black-and-white photos from Merrill’s personal collection. This book shares a lifetime of adventures told from Merrill’s firsthand experiences of flying top-secret missions for the Air Force, viewing the devastation of the Good Friday Earthquake in Anchorage, and the challenges of starting his own helicopter company. Fans of aviation and military history across the US will be interested in this, the only book on this aviation icon.