Bryce Gibby’s Biography

As a twelve-thousand-nine-hundred-hour professional aviator, Bryce has flown the skies of Europe, Iceland, Greenland, North America and Mexico. As a mountaineer, he has hiked the Alps, the Appalachians, and the Rockies. He is a traveler in search of adventure, extraordinary and little known stories of history, and ancient legends that light the imagination–and he is a published freelance writer.

Published Freelance Writer

After years of research, much of which was in England and France, Gibby recently finished The Chronicles of the Heroic. A series of seven books: The Princess of Selgovae and the High King, His Majesty and the Prince of Lothian, The Captain and the Dark Queen, The Red Dragon and the Crown of Saxnôt, Knights of the Argoat, The Young Knight of Selgovae, and lastly, Cwen.

Bryce previously authored Valiant Young Men—Heroes of Flight. The biographies of three renowned pioneer aviators, Eddie Rickenbacker, James Norman Hall, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery. He also authored Valiant Young Women—Heroines, the true life stories of Joan of Arc, the Lady Jane Grey, Susanna the Hebrew, Maria von Trapp and Irene Gut, all of whom were incorruptible young women who literally changed history. His biographies, as well as his fictional stories, are exceptionally entertaining, thrilling, adventurous, romantic, and remarkably motivating.

Bryce’s Youth

Bryce grew up in Riverdale. A small rural farming town on the banks of the Weber River, just east of the Great Salt Lake and west of Mount Ogden. As a boy, he was afforded considerable freedom to explore the countryside. He build tree huts and Tarzan swings, and camped, unsupervised, in the expansive wilderness and high mountains of Utah. Bryce’s father, Grant, a golden-era aviator, aircraft mechanic and designer of home-built planes, reared his son on stories of flight. At the age of thirteen, Bryce was given his first flight lesson in a Schweizer sailplane in Tehachapi, California. At sixteen he soled, at seventeen he became a private pilot, at age eighteen he earned his commercial license. Later, Bryce became his dad’s test pilot. After serving a two-year mission for his church, he became the youngest certificated Airline Transport Pilot in the United States, receiving his ATP on his twenty-third birthday—the minimum age allowed by FAA regulations.

Career and Adventures

Early in his career, Bryce flew for Coronado Flying Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He few as a flight instructor, charter and bush pilot, flying to remote areas in the southwest. He often operated off-airport, flying fires for the Forest Service and doing aerial exploration for oil and uranium companies. The inherent danger and excitement of this type of aviation greatly appealed to Bryce. Every day was a spectacular adventure, flying low-level over breathtaking landscapes.

His Adventures Continue

Later, Bryce partnered with his father in a Beech Aircraft dealership. The mega manufacturer then hired him as a factory salesman-pilot. After several years, desiring to expand his aviation horizons, he flew propjet Metroliners for Skywest, then a fledgling airliner, until he was recruited by Eastern Airlines flying DC-9 jets out of Atlanta, Georgia. When Eastern was shut down by a horrific strike, Bryce returned to aircraft sales, importing and exporting between Europe and America. On one spectacular North Atlantic Ocean crossing, he ferried a single-engine Beech Bonanza with his good friend, Rodney Greenway. Flying from Augsburg to Odense, to Wick, to Reykjavik, to Narsarsuaq, to Goose Bay, to Mont-Joli, to Peachtree City, GA. This flight proved extraordinary, flying low altitude over the emerald coastline of Scotland, the dramatic volcanic mountains of Iceland, and over the myriads of icebergs, flows and fjords of Greenland.

Bryce’s Research

Aviation affords opportunities to do research in far off places, touchstones of the past, the remarkable settings for his books, where he unfolds stories of heaven-sent heroines and heroes, in true-life and legend.