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Offline tundra_flier

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #30 on: September 06, 2006, 12:14:10 AM »
Quote from: happylanding on September 05, 2006, 10:31:44 PM
Gosh, the pic of B24 is incredible. I never thought about aircraft wrecks somewhere to be seen while you fly.......So, you live in a really interesting place and the conditions looks everyday more form the pictures demanding! |:)\ |:)\

I guess I never thought about it, but maybe it is a bit morbid, going flying to look at an old crash site. :-\

And yes, this is a very interesting place to fly or even just be an aviation enthusiast, and we haven't even gotten to "Stupid Cub Tricks" yet. ;)   Although after seeing your pictures of the Swiss Alps I decided not to say anything about mountain flying in Alaska.   |:)\

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #31 on: September 06, 2006, 04:58:44 AM »
I was in Nome today, we didn't go to the Island because the weather in *Nome* got low and we probobly (I think definately) wouldn't have gotten in on an IFR approach.  We decided not to chance the possibility of the weather coming up (which was good because it didn't) because 14 of the passengers were doing a round trip as part of a vacation (they got rebooked for another day this week).

VFR traffic, however, was still going in and out...

And this is all legal.   Special VFR clearances can make things really confusing.  ;)
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2006, 03:14:23 PM »
There's no place like Nome....Thank Providence!

Actually the strip at Kotzebue is interesting out in the sound like that.  First time I was there I was riding as a passenger in a C-130....I looked out as we flared and all I saw was water :P  Thought for sure we were gonna dump it in the drink!
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2006, 02:33:47 AM »
OK, a few more.  First the Carvair in Fairbanks:



P-38 Gate Guard at Elmendorf



A very COLD Ercoupe

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #34 on: September 07, 2006, 04:58:51 AM »
Quote from: cj5_pilot on September 06, 2006, 03:14:23 PM
There's no place like Nome....Thank Providence!

Actually the strip at Kotzebue is interesting out in the sound like that.  First time I was there I was riding as a passenger in a C-130....I looked out as we flared and all I saw was water :P  Thought for sure we were gonna dump it in the drink!

Hehe, Kotz and Nome are easy strips.  Savoonga is worse on the Island but it's gravel with big rocks and ruts!

Barter Island's runway is better now that the improvements have happened, still gravel and that place can get really bad *quick* too.

Our normal run is Fairbanks-Barter-Deadhorse-Nuiqsik-Barrow-Nuiqsik-Deadhorse-Barter-Fairbanks.   I've already had people pay to go from Barter to Deadhorse in the morning so they could get on in Deadhorse to go to Fairbanks (through Barter) when we came back through.  And that was on a clear day with the sun shining!  They were worried the weather would get bad and we wouldn't get back in.


The slope in general is "special" though.

Oh, I got some pics of the tundra.  It's during that "special" period up there where it's turned red but hasn't gotten covered in white stuff yet.
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2006, 02:39:01 AM »
Quote from: Baradium on September 03, 2006, 05:30:43 AM
Quote from: tundra_flier on September 03, 2006, 05:14:00 AM
How about a DC-3/C-47 on skis?  Taken at Palmer airport a couple years ago.



I pity those on dialup just after that one picture!   :p 

It's now owned by a company called  "Bush Air Company"  out of Anchorage.

I want to know where the Douglas Tri Motor is.

We have a picture in our customer service lounge at the airport of it as well as a model of it.   DC-3 converted to 3 engine with turboprops, it's also on skis.



I saw the Tri-motor ONCE.  It was '86, and I was 14.  My dad and his boss were taking a truck and a mobile shop (built out of a step van) to Prudhoe from Soldotna.  They invited me along.  After we got to Prudhoe (I drove a hundred or so miles of the Dalton solo at age 14 since Dad and Glen wanted to talk--they both jumped in the step van and left the Crew Cab Flatbed F-350 to me!) we flew a "milk run" back on Alaska Airlines.  The 727 stopped at Fairbanks before we flew on to Anchorage, and the tri-motor was there.  Let me tell you a DC-3 with three turbines looks FUNKY!  I'm told it performs like a stallion though.

Though I don't have a pic of the trimotor DC-3, here's a couple of the "Super DC-3's" that are at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage (ANC):




BTW, sure you mean the "Bush Air Company" and not the "Bush Company"....after all we all know how you airline pilots got a girl in every city  ;)
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2006, 08:33:59 AM »
Hey Bro!  Shrink you're pictures before posting them!   :P

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #37 on: October 01, 2006, 08:36:15 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on October 01, 2006, 08:33:59 AM
Hey Bro!  Shrink you're pictures before posting them!   :P

Phil

Haha!  Makes it kind of tough to look at the whole picture, doesn't it?  ;)
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