Bush pilots are to Alaska what Pony Express riders were to the Wild West. For nearly 100 years they have tamed America’s last frontier by combining the raw survival skills and courage of explorers ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Freedom to Joe Darminio is landing on a 200-foot sandbar as easily as a paved runway, deep in Alaska's wilderness where the twisted hemlocks and the occasional brown bear are the ...
Calling themselves the Iditarod Air Force, volunteer pilots fly through some of the nation's worst weather to transport food, supplies, people, and dogs along the 1,100 mile trail. The author tells ...
It’s a solemn feeling, seeing a bush plane crash up close. This plane crashed near the author’s camp, the day after they left the area. Bush pilots are to Alaska what Pony Express riders were to the ...