Bob Reeve pioneered glacier landing techniques in 1930s Alaska using painted tire tracks and systematic risk assessment, eventually founding Reeve Aleutian Airways.
TaildraggerOn October 9, 1937, American aviator Jimmy Angel landed his Flamingo monoplane atop Venezuela's Auyán-tepui mesa - and couldn't get it back off for 33 years.
TaildraggerMoose Creek Airport (5U1) is an 1,800-foot grass strip deep in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness - one of the most demanding and rewarding backcountry destinations in American aviation.
RampCarl Ben Eielson opened Alaska to air travel in the 1920s before dying at 32 during a 1929 Arctic rescue mission over the Bering Strait.
TaildraggerThe ADS-B technology in your panel today traces directly to the FAA's Capstone Program, a field test in one of the most dangerous stretches of airspace in the United States.
VectorThe Valdez STOL competition in Alaska is North America's premier short-field event, where modified bush planes land in as little as 38 feet of runway.
RampHarold Gillam flew Alaska's most brutal conditions for fifteen years before a January 1943 crash in the coastal mountains claimed the territory's most storied bush pilot.
TaildraggerLake Hood in Anchorage is the world's busiest seaplane base, handling 800+ operations on peak days - a window into why aviation in Alaska is a way of life, not a hobby.
TowerBob Reeve turned Valdez tidal mud flats into a runway in 1932 and pioneered commercial glacier landing in Alaska using seal oil and methodical improvisation.
TaildraggerThe 1999 Alaska Capstone Program proved ADS-B surveillance could work in the world's most demanding operational environment, directly shaping the FAA's 2020 nationwide mandate.
VectorHarold Gillam - the Alaska bush pilot no crash could kill - died in January 1943 trying to walk to help after putting his passengers down on a frozen mountain.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria antitoxin 700 miles to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in brutal cold, completing in two days what would have taken dogsled teams three weeks.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve arrived in Depression-era Alaska with $75 and invented commercial glacier flying on the tidal flats of Valdez.
TaildraggerThe NTSB's preliminary report on a de Havilland Otter crash points to weather avoidance - here's the survival lesson every pilot should take from it.
TowerHow Don Sheldon, Talkeetna's legendary glacier pilot, landed ski planes on Denali to ferry climbers and pull off impossible rescues.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve turned Alaska's Valdez mudflats into a runway with metal-shod skis and became a legendary glacier pilot.
TaildraggerHow Alaska legend Harold Gillam pioneered instrument flying, never lost a passenger for 15 years, and died in a 1943 crash.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Johnson Creek, Idaho, Three Uniform Two, the Mowed-Grass Strip at Five Thousand Feet Where the Mountains Close In on Both Sides and the Whole Airplane Community Shows Up to Cut the Lawn.
RampHow Bob Reeve, the Glacier Pilot of Valdez, used tidal mudflats and homemade skis to supply Alaska's gold mines by air.
TaildraggerHow Talkeetna bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub uphill on Denali's glaciers to rescue climbers and map the mountain.
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