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  9. Posted

    13 hours ago, P_7878 said:

    Love the livery...!

    (Interesting reading, johnb,...the Alaska bush pilots were surely busy around Valdez very early on...!)

    During my 39 Alaskan years I flew on Alaska, Wien, Northern Consolidated, Interior, Markair, AIA, Reeve, Cordova, Alaska Coastal and Pacific Northern.  G21, C46, DC3/4/6, L749/1049/1649, Convair 240/540/580/880, DHC2/3/6, Skyvan, B732/38, B721/22 , B742 plus FAA C123, Convair 580 and Sabreliner. 

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    In Alaska's favorite plane - the PA18 Supercub.

    Traversing a lot of western Canada and all of Alaska, the Yukon was a major mode of transport.spacer.png

    Xplane's built-in haze doesn't happen up here - visibility 100+.

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    On the left, the village of Tanana just downstream from the confluence of the Yukon and Tanana (right) rivers.spacer.png

     

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  11. Posted · Edited by olderndirt

    Not sure Alaska Air ever operated out of Valdez but here they are.

     

    Turning to a westerly heading for Anchorage.spacer.png

    Several glaciers along the way - this is the massive Columbia Glacier.spacer.png

    Those are the Ivy League glaciers - Harvard on the left, Yale on the right.spacer.png

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  18. Posted · Edited by olderndirt

    Alaska's arctic coastal plain gets less than 10 inches of precip a year and wind blows, from east to west and back, most of the time.

    Barter Island, on the northeast coast - spent an interesting year here many years ago.spacer.png

    On final to Deadhorse - airport to the oil development in and around Prudhoe Bay.spacer.png 

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  22. Posted · Edited by olderndirt

    A flight I made many times over my Alaskan years.  From 'Ophir' (an old gold mining spot on the Innoko river, now part of the 'Iditarod Trail') to McGrath (where I worked for the FAA) - learned to fly there back in the low sixties.

    The Ophir strip is 1940ft long - handles an oil tanker C46 and is about 38 west of McGrath.spacer.png

    Mt Takotna, about half way - used to host 'Tatalina AFS', a GCI site.  The radar's still turning.spacer.png

    McGrath - on the Kuskokwim river where the Takotna river joins.  Alaska Air flew 727's in here before VASI and Wien flew 737's.  Now it's regional turboprops.spacer.png

     

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