Jimmy Angel, a Missouri barnstormer-turned-bush pilot, discovered the world's highest waterfall from a cockpit in 1933 and later crash-landed on top of it.
TaildraggerHow Bob Reeve arrived in Valdez in 1932 with $12 and invented glacier landing techniques that defined Alaska aviation for half a century.
TaildraggerCarl Ben Eielson pioneered Alaska aviation in the 1920s, flew the first transarctic flight in 1928, and died on a November 1929 mercy mission to a fur-trading ship locked in Siberian pack ice.
TaildraggerBob Reeve turned Alaska's tidal mudflats and glaciers into a commercial freight operation in 1932, building one of aviation's most unlikely empires from nothing.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon completed over 6,000 glacier landings in Alaska's Ruth Amphitheater across 27 years, defining what safe, disciplined bush flying looks like in the world's most demanding terrain.
TaildraggerJimmy Angel was a Missouri barnstormer who discovered the world's tallest waterfall in 1933, then crash-landed on its summit in 1937 - leaving his plane there for 33 years.
TaildraggerBob Reeve arrived in Valdez, Alaska in 1932 with $30 and built the most accomplished glacier flying operation of Alaska's golden age of bush aviation.
TaildraggerCarl Ben Eielson pioneered Alaska airmail and crossed the Arctic Ocean in 1928 - then vanished over the Bering Sea on November 9, 1929, at age 32.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham completed the first solo nonstop east-to-west Atlantic crossing on September 4–5, 1936, flying 3,600 miles in 21 hours against prevailing headwinds.
TaildraggerCarl Ben Eielson pioneered commercial aviation in Alaska before disappearing over the Bering Sea on November 9, 1929, sparking one of aviation history's most dangerous search operations.
TaildraggerHarold Gillam was Alaska's most feared bad-weather pilot - until a January 1943 mountain in southeastern Alaska ended his legendary career and stranded five survivors for 32 days.
TaildraggerIn January 1929, WWI ace Wop May flew 250 miles through subarctic Alberta to deliver diphtheria antitoxin and save children in isolated Fort Vermilion.
TaildraggerCarl 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 Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Piper Super Cub high on Denali to rescue injured climbers in May 1960.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and founded the backcountry flying tradition still alive today.
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