...National Guard because I missed army life and being around people I knew I could trust and always count on. "After flying a Piper Cub with a friend and doing acrobatics over Admiralty Island and the Juneau Ice Field, I decided to get a pilot's license...
...the worst. In July 1992, within six months of completing Horner's class, Speckman crashed while trying to land a Piper Cub on a narrow strip of beach near Shishmaref in northwest Alaska. Touching down, she lost control of the plane and it...
...services held Monday for Fish and Wildlife Protection Trooper James A. Moen of McGrath. Moen, 49, died June 25 when his Piper Cub crashed during a fishery patrol, about 65 miles southwest of Lake Iliamna. He was a 17-year veteran of the Alaska...
...wildlife trooper James A. Moen. Moen, 49, of McGrath and formerly of Petersburg, died June 25 when his single-engine Piper Cub went down during a sportfishing patrol about 65 miles southwest of Lake Iliamna. Col. Joel Hard, director of the Fish...
...wildlife trooper James A. Moen. Moen, 49, of McGrath and formerly of Petersburg, died June 25 when his single-engine Piper Cub went down during a sportfishing patrol about 65 miles southwest of Lake Iliamna. Col. Joel Hard, director of the Fish...
Shane Young flies his remote control Piper Cub model airplane Sunday at Mendenhall Lake. Young, who has been flying remote control planes for 20 years, says he likes the new...
...interval so that each photograph overlapped on all four sides. While the Beaver photographed large groups of caribou, two Piper Cubs and a Cessna 185 radio-tracked caribou and searched for small groups that did not contain a radio-collared animal...
...incoming bullet by making a hard dive. In the process, the rear dive planes - similar to the elevator on the tail of a Piper Cub - jammed in dive position. There had been an incident shortly after the Grunion's initial launch in which another sub...
...wildlife trooper James A. Moen. Moen, 49, of McGrath and formerly of Petersburg, died June 25 when his single-engine Piper Cub went down during a sportfishing patrol about 65 miles southwest of Lake Iliamna. Col. Joel Hard, director of the Fish...
...He also began his flying ministry, reaching out to logging camps and smaller villages in northern SE Alaska with his Piper Cub on floats. He and Joey also piloted the Messenger III out of Wrangell, a 52-foot mission boat which served many of...
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