The adventures of an airline, bush, and jet pilot in both the Canadian Arctic and west coast areas of British Columbia, Canada are vividly described in North Country Aviation Tales.
The book includes a vivid description of a forced landing at night (during a blizzard) in Canada's Far North in a twin-engine, 1928 Barkley Grow, and of Fox's subsequent survival without food.
It includes the story of an engine change on an Otter Bush Plane at 65 below zero at a remote Arctic weather station.
Retold are the author's adventures during four years as a search and rescue pilot where he used the DC3, the Otter Bush Plane, and a jet fighter trainer.
Other adventures include flying a passenger version of the Canso Flying Boat on the West Coast of British Columbia and during the summer months on Canada's Arctic DEW line, and Fox's first-ever successful interception by a jet of a DC3 with a full passenger load, going down and calling a "Mayday" between Churchill and The Pas, Manitoba.
Greville Fox was a former airline captain and check pilot in Canada's third-largest airline. He was born in 1918 and joined the Canadian Army's "Princess Pats" in 1939 and later transfered to the Royal Canadian Air Force where he served a period overseas as a mechanic, an air gunner, flight engineer and pilot in World War II.
He rejoined the RCAF during the Korean War and flew as a pilot for four years in a search and rescue squadron, before being offered a position as a canso captain for Pacific Western Airlines. He was later promoted to a check pilot position and checked pilots for instrument proficiency up to and including four engined transports.
He was an inventor with several inventions still used today and became a friend and later a factory representative for the inventor of the Link Trainer, Ed Link. He was the sole representative for the Link Simulation Company for all Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Madagascar and Africa.
Greville has served in many trades and has been president of an electrical design engineering company that employed one of the top electrical engineers in Canada, who was formerly "Engineer in Charge" of Canada's space satellite, Alouette.
Greville also:
- holds a University of Saskatchewan scuba diving certificate
- holds a State of Washington heavy truck and trailer license
- held a Province of Ontario motor mechanics license and taught this trade at a major Toronto high school
- was an instructor on the Boeing 737 flight simulator
- owned two aircraft, a Twin Beech 18 and a Cessna 180, at the same time, and owned the Twin Beech for 12 years
He is a former:
- district manager for a large Oklahoma oil and gas company
- manager for a Winnipeg display advertising company
- president of three companies: Victoria Audio Visual Services Ltd., National Flight Simulators Ltd., and Flight Systems Inc. in the United States.
- was employed as an upholsterer for marine craft
- was employed as a heavy truck and trailer driver, and at one time drove logging trucks in Washington State
- worked as a serviceman on marine communications equipment
- serviced and repaired computers in flight simulators and carried spares and circuit diagrams along with test equipment in his Beech 18 Twin aircraft (one of two aircraft he owned at that time)
Additional comments:
- made his first solo parachute jump at the age of 71
- a former junior and senior warden at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Sequim, Washington
- re-organized and was president for four years of Sequim Community Aid
- was past president of two service clubs in Canada and the United States
- held a Washington State building contractors licence (bonded)