In January 1929, pilots Wop May and Vic Horner flew diphtheria serum 600 miles into Arctic Alberta in an open-cockpit biplane.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Super Cub on Denali's glaciers to fly injured climbers off the mountain one at a time.
TaildraggerThe Floatplane Pilot pack for MSFS 2024 drops pilots into Alaskan bush flying - here's what it can and can't teach a real aviator.
TowerHow Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
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 broke barnstormer Bob Reeve turned Alaska's tidal mud and moving glaciers into runways and became aviation's legendary Glacier Pilot.
TaildraggerHow Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and rewrote the rules of backcountry flying.
TaildraggerHow Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali in a Piper Super Cub, saving stranded climbers and pioneering ski-plane flying.
TaildraggerIn 1928, bush pilot Punch Dickins flew a 3,900-mile survey of Canada's unmapped Barren Lands, earning the McKee Trophy and opening the Northwest Territories to regular air service.
TaildraggerHow Wilfrid 'Wop' May survived being chased by the Red Baron in 1918 and went on to complete a life-saving mercy flight through the Canadian wilderness in 1929.
TaildraggerBob Reeve pioneered glacier runway operations in 1930s Alaska, turning tidal mud flats and remote ice fields into reliable supply routes for Wrangell Mountain mines.
TaildraggerChamberlain Basin airstrip sits inside America's largest wilderness area, reachable only by air or foot - here's what pilots need to know about flying there.
RampNoel Wien's 1924 flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks in an open-cockpit biplane changed Alaska forever.
TaildraggerLake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage is the world's busiest float plane facility with 800 based aircraft and 235 daily operations.
RampJimmy Angel crashed his Flamingo monoplane atop Venezuela's Auyán-tepui in 1937, proving the world's tallest waterfall existed.
TaildraggerThe Fokker Trimotor bridged barnstorming and commercial aviation, shaping bush flying and aircraft design after a fatal 1931 crash.
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