Bush pilots are to Alaska what Pony Express riders were to the Wild West. For nearly 100 years they have tamed America’s last frontier by combining the raw survival skills and courage of explorers ...
Introduction : Why Buck Taylor and not Buck Rogers? -- Cowboys, sourdoughs, and Alaska bush pilots -- Mines, mail, and mercy flights -- Mudflat takeoffs and glacier landings -- The copper belt line -- ...
Famed Alaska bush pilot Jim Tweto took off into gusty winds prior to a fatal plane crash at a remote airstrip near Shaktoolik in June 2023, according to a new National Transportation Safety Board ...
T-3 -- Pilot's helper -- First airplane -- Growing up in Haycock -- Village life -- Working at the mine -- Learning to fly -- Alaska territorial guard -- Alaska scouts -- Segregation -- Early flying - ...
A revolution in flight training that is leading the way to the future of Alaska commercial aviation has very quietly been taking place in Bethel over the past decade. Yuut Yaqungviat Flight School -- ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Freedom to Joe Darminio is landing on a 200-foot sandbar as easily as a paved runway, deep in Alaska's wilderness where the twisted hemlocks and the occasional brown bear are the ...