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...depression.After serving in WWII he was called to Alaska during the polio years to make artificial limbs. His cousin, a bush pilot, flew out to the villages for measurements. Robert custom made the prosthetics.After settling his homestead at Butterfly...
...Jim, Geoff, Teresa and Jolyne Bauer.Willie was well known throughout Southeast Alaska as an aviation mechanic and bush pilot, finishing his career as a pilot for the SOA Dept of Fish & GameHe was very competitive in sports. Many will remember...
...private pilot certificates and offers private pilot courses, mountain flying courses, tailwheel transition courses and Bush pilot courses.Alaska Flight Center also owns a four-seat Cessna 172. The planes are also available as rentals that can...
Pioneering Juneau bush pilot and Alaska Coastal Airlines founder Sheldon B. (Shell) Simmons and wife Bernice are seen relaxing against a log structure at edge of a lake; she holds a beer in this undated photo.
...because she had fond memories of spending an idyllic weekend there a few years ago, and because she'd heard her dad, a bush pilot, talk about it while she was growing up. She also knew she wanted to work in her appreciation for Southeast into her...
FAIRBANKS - If you're a bush pilot in Alaska, it's better to bruise your ego than your airplane...simulate the kind of conditions, at least size-wise, that Bush pilots are regularly confronted with. The 25-by-600 runways - the...
...other plane didn't collect similar data.Veal was from Southern California and always dreamed of becoming an Alaska bush pilot, his grandfather, Robert Veal, told the Anchorage newspaper. "It's in the family. His father and myself are both...
...the North northwest I took a bunch of Buddy's cassettes and people got real excited about his music. He sang about bush pilots, dog mushers, and Inupiat whale hunters - and all this resonated with people. 'Dividing the Muktuk' is probably...
ANCHORAGE - An agitated moose ran down and stomped a well-known Bush pilot from Willow, but he was saved when his wife grabbed a shovel from their pickup truck and whacked the big animal until it backed...
...Roussel said. Roussel and Gracia made up one of two teams filming throughout Alaska and filing reports on native people, bush pilots, Russian heritage and natural features. There's something special about Alaska, Roussel said. Something not so...