Carl Ben Eielson pioneered Alaska's airmail routes and crossed the Arctic Ocean before dying in a 1929 mercy mission over Siberia at age 32.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien flew Fairbanks to Nome in 1925 and wrote the careful-pilot rules every bush pilot still lives by.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman sailed to France in 1920 to become the first Black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license.
TaildraggerBessie Coleman crossed the Atlantic and learned French to earn the pilot's license America denied her, becoming the first Black woman to fly.
TaildraggerHow Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license - by learning French and sailing to France when no U.S. school would teach her.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, used homemade stainless-steel skis to land on Alaska's glaciers and supply remote gold mines.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
TaildraggerLincoln Beachey flew before 17 million Americans and was called the greatest aviator who ever lived by Orville Wright - before dying at age 28.
TaildraggerNoel Wien's 1924 flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks in an open-cockpit biplane changed Alaska forever.
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