Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landing techniques in the Alaska Range across three decades, and his methods remain the standard for high-mountain bush flying today.
TaildraggerDon Sheldon was the Talkeetna bush pilot who flew the Alaska Range for thirty years, pioneering glacier landing techniques that still define mountain flying today.
TaildraggerHow broke bush pilot Bob Reeve used tidal mudflats and homemade steel skis to land airplanes on Alaskan glaciers and build an airline.
TaildraggerRadio 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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