Blue Skies, Green Hell

Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilots wife, is a riveting tale set
in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving
wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place
called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft
service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities.
Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights.
Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range
radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when
they make a forced landing in no mans land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their
twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A
stone age Indian appears where he shouldnt be. This is drama from the cockpit of
vintage aircraft.