Don Sheldon, the Talkeetna Mountain Pilot, and the Glacier Landings That Wrote the Book on Bush Flying
How Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and rewrote the rules of backcountry flying.
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Don Sheldon, the Talkeetna Glacier Pilot Who Landed a Super Cub on the Roof of Denali
How Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali in a Piper Super Cub, saving stranded climbers and pioneering ski-plane flying.
TaildraggerNoel Wien and the first flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks that opened Alaska to the airplane
Noel Wien's 1924 flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks in an open-cockpit biplane changed Alaska forever.
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