Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice DC-8 cargo flight from PACD Cold Bay Airport located in the Aleutians East Borough of Alaska to PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport located 4 nautical miles southwest of downtown Anchorage by Wein Air airline that is first airline in Alaska and one of the first airlines in America.  Wein Air had more routes than any other airline in the world and Wein Air was first airline in the world to introduce jet service to rough or gravel runways.

Excited airport spotters saw this at PACD



Yikes  very ice ground!!!!



Starting engines in sub zero freezing weather!!



Leaving cargo apron to taxi to runway 32 for backtracking



Taxiing to beginning of runway 32 for backtracking



Backtracking on runway 32





Holding position on runway 32 awaiting for clearance for take off



Still holding



Airborne on climb to FL350 with background view of Kinzaraf Lagoon



Climbing through clouds



Don't you love watching engines passing through clouds??



Emerging from clouds at FL200 continuing the climb to FL350





Now cruising at FL350



Nice Alaskan landscape!



Cruising at FL350



Making left turn to cross Aleutian Islands Range to get from Bering Sea to Gulf of Alaska



Cruising above Gulf of Alaska





Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink to view rest of the exciting flight as seen below.

 

Here is the link:  http://vatil.org.il/forum/index.php/topic/41652-yes-a-local-based-alaskan-airline-had-long-haul-plane/

Thank you for viewing.  Stay tuned for next exciting flight.

Regards,

Aharon

Great pics!

FDX777,

 

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

 

Aharon