Noel Wien, the Quiet Barnstormer Who Flew North of the Arctic Circle With No Map, No Radio, and No One Ahead of Him
How Noel Wien became the first pilot to cross the Arctic Circle in Alaska - and why his caution made him a legend.
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Noel Wien, the Careful Norwegian Who Flew Fairbanks to Nome in Nineteen Twenty-Five and Wrote the Rules Every Bush Pilot Still Lives By
How Noel Wien flew Fairbanks to Nome in 1925 and wrote the careful-pilot rules every bush pilot still lives by.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Cautious Dane of the Arctic, and the Bush Pilot Who Flew to Siberia and Lived to Grow Old
How Noel Wien became Alaska's greatest bush pilot and the first to fly commercially between North America and Asia - by being careful.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Open-Cockpit Hisso Standard, and the Nineteen Twenty-Five First Flight From Fairbanks to Nome Across Country No Map Had Ever Drawn
In 1925, Noel Wien flew an open-cockpit Hisso Standard 500 miles from Fairbanks to Nome across Alaska no pilot had ever seen.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Standard Biplane With No Brakes, and the First Man to Fly the Alaska Bush Where There Were No Maps
How Noel Wien flew a brakeless 1924 Standard biplane across an unmapped Alaska and wrote the rulebook for bush flying.
TaildraggerNoel Wien, the Fairbanks-to-Nome First Flight, and the Quiet Norwegian Who Taught Alaska How to Fly Its Own Backcountry
How Noel Wien's 1924 Fairbanks-to-Nome flight invented Alaska bush flying and shaped modern backcountry aviation.
TaildraggerNoel Wien and the first flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks that opened Alaska to the airplane
Noel Wien's 1924 flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks in an open-cockpit biplane changed Alaska forever.
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