The book, Winging It! His Own Story By Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator relates the life and times of Jack Jefford a barnstormer, bush pilot and for more than 30 years the Chief Pilot of the Alaskan Region of the FAA.  "Winging It! His Own Story By Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator" is full of amusing, heart warming and thrilling stories of one of the most beloved and storied pilots who ever flew the Alaskan skies.  During Jack Jefford's many years of flying in the Alaskan wilderness he: 1) Flew the mail; 2) Hunted coyotes; 3) Counted Reindeer from the air; 4) Carried much needed supplies to Eskimo villages & wilderness gold mines; 5) Dredged for gold; 6) Flew wartime patrols; 7) Transported performers, prisoners & congressmen; 8) Rescued the injured & lost and 9) Survived five days atop an Arctic mountain after his aircraft crashed.  Unfortunately, Jack Jefford died suddenly in 1979 just before the final manuscript for this book was available for review.  He will forever be remembered in part by the tales and stories of a man who was full of adventure and who flew everything from biplanes to jets during his exploits as a pilot.  The major sections of "Winging It! His Own Story By Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator" are as follows: 1) Epitaph: Jack Jefford, 1910-1979; 2) Foreword by Carmen Jefford Fisher; 3) Part 1 - Riding The Grub Line including (Becoming A Pilot, The Voice From The Sky, Riding The Grub Line, Barnstorming, Coyote Slayer, Crossroads, Broken Bow, Flying The Weather, Hastings & Kelly One And Kelly Two); 4) Part 2 - Foul-Weather Flyer including (Nome, Working The Mines, Henry Grumm Goes South And Brother Hansen Returns Home, To Cordova In The Vega, Foul-Weather Flyer & The Crackups); 5) Part 3 - There's More To The Job Than Flying including (The Girls And The Godfather, Gold Fever, The Reindeer Study, Progress In The Cockpit, Crash On The Darby Mountains, Groping Up The Yukon, Guiding The Columbia, The Evacuation Of Jack Devine, The Stinson-A Trimotor, The Marshal And Miss Alaska, Missing Pilots & The Reindeer Acquisition); 6) Part 4 - Patrol Pilot including (Signed On With The CAA, General Buckner, The DLAND At West Ruby, Injured Man Aboard, War, The Queen Mary, Horning's Ordeal, The Boeing 247 & A Tale Of Two Cessnas); 7) Part 5 - King Chris including (King Chris, Wartime Flight To Attu, A Night At North Shore, Umnak, The Waipio Inveiglement, Shungnak Snafu, Torture Flight To Seattle, Summer Landing, CAA Christmas & They Come and They Go); 8) Part 6 - Gold Medalist including (Hinchinbrook Beach Landing, Tragedy At Port Heiden, Fuel Oil Blues, The Rescue Of Cliff Uzzell, Juneau Backfire, The Black Cat's Path, Taylor Weather, Fiddling Around In Nome & Gold Medalist); 9) Part 7 - Into The Jet Age including (N-123, Trouble In The C-123, The Flying X-Rays, Sabreliner Jet School, McKinley Rescue and Back To Nome On The Iditarod) and  10) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, "Winging It! His Own Story By Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 58 black and white photographs and 2) 1 black and white illustration.  This book is 320 pages and is in very good condition.  The author is Jack Jefford with Carmen Jefford Fisher (foreword).  Edition published in 1981.