Radio Hangar explores Bob Reeve, the Valdez Mudflats, and the Stainless-Steel Skis That Turned a Tidal Bog Into the Only Runway a Glacier Pilot Needed.
TaildraggerHow Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon landed a Piper Super Cub high on Denali to rescue injured climbers in May 1960.
TaildraggerHow bush pilot Bob Reeve pioneered glacier flying and made the 1937 Walsh Glacier landing that nearly cost him his life and his airplane.
TaildraggerHow Talkeetna bush pilot Don Sheldon flew an ordinary Cessna 180 on skis onto Denali's glaciers to rescue stranded climbers.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon pioneered high-altitude glacier flying in the Alaska Range, built a wilderness hut at 5,800 feet by airlifting materials in a Cessna 180, and left behind a tradition that still defines Talkeetna flying today.
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