Bush-pilot lore celebrates the humor, quick thinking, grace under pressure and flying skills that sum up what it means to be ...

Introduction : Why Buck Taylor and not Buck Rogers? -- Cowboys, sourdoughs, and Alaska bush pilots -- Mines, mail, and mercy flights -- Mudflat takeoffs and glacier landings -- The copper belt line -- ...

T-3 -- Pilot's helper -- First airplane -- Growing up in Haycock -- Village life -- Working at the mine -- Learning to fly -- Alaska territorial guard -- Alaska scouts -- Segregation -- Early flying - ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Freedom to Joe Darminio is landing on a 200-foot sandbar as easily as a paved runway, deep in Alaska's wilderness where the twisted hemlocks and the occasional brown bear are the ...