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Alaska's Bush Pilots (Paperback)
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Alaska's Bush Pilots (Paperback)
Series: Images of Aviation
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Bush pilots are known as rough, tough, resourceful people who fly
their aircraft into tight spots in the worst of weather. Alaska's
bush pilots are all of that and more. Acting as pioneers in a land
with 43,000 miles of coastline and North America's largest
mountains, Alaska's bush pilots were and are visionaries of a
lifestyle of freedom. Flying came late to Alaska but caught on
quickly. The first flight was made over a three-day exhibition at
Fairbanks, July 3-5, 1913. James Martin first flew that aircraft,
owned by him and his wife, Lilly, and investors Arthur Williams and
R.S. McDonald. Ever since, Alaskan bush pilots have found that they
were calculators of their own fate, flying in fragile aircraft over
vast stretches of tundra or through towering mountain passes. This
book examines the pioneer aviators and the aircraft types such as
the Stearman, Stinson, and Lockheed, many of which were tested and
crashed in the far north regions of Alaska.
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