The unique cargo-passenger aircraft will officially retire Oct. 18. “It’s truly nostalgic,” he said aboard Flight 66. “They’ve been around a long time and brought me some great memories, especially fishing holes.” Cargo in the front, passengers in the back A combi is the mullet of...
(the Kenai Peninsula), tin, and chromite. Gold mining near Fairbanks and on the Seward Peninsula is decreasing. In 1968–69 rich oil deposits were discovered in northern Alaska. The manufacturing industry is represented largely by fish canneries and sawmills. In Ketchikan and Sitka there are ...
The local clinic in the tiny village of 200 people on the Bering Sea couldn’t stop the bleeding or the contractions brought on by a baby that wasn’t due for another two months. With harsh winds grounding an air ambulance from nearby Nome, medical staff called on th...
Horizon Air’s more than 700 pilots, who are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), voted to ratify a new agreement aimed at supporting the company’s pilots and retaining talent as mainline airlines continue hiring pilots away from regional airlines at record levels. The...
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As I experienced on Icelandair’s Max 8, the plane is noticeably quieter in the cabin than the NG-series planes the MAX replaces, even when seated near the engines I flew in coach, seated in row 13 both ways, in the aisle southbound and at the window back to SEA. If you’re famil...
“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athabaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, he saw nearly eight decades of tragedies and adventures. At age five he cared for his younger...
What makes this route so special? Well, just look at a map and I’m sure you’ll appreciate how cool this flight is. The journey covers a distance of about ~1,250 miles one-way, and Cold Bay is right near the halfway point. ...
Captain Mevatne says that this happened 2 hours and 40 minutes after Président Doumer had been hit (it was Oct. 31 by then). The explosion was so powerful that they were thrown off their feet, and hatches and other items flew into the air. She started to sink by the bow while the ...
and would live up to its dangerous reputation during my tour of duty, others who had preceded me had left lessons behind that would help me survive. After completion of my final operational air training in Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer aircraft at NAS Whiting Field near Pensacola, FL, I was a qua...