The passion for flight has seized Alaska flyers—and those who yearn to fly to the Last Frontier—since 1913, when the first biplane arrived in crates via steamship and paddle-wheeler. In the decades to follow, Alaska’s skies buzzed with aircraft—some brand-new, others patched together, and still others lovingly restored to their original beauty.
Alaska’s Bush Planes offers a brief history of flight in Alaska, then transports the reader on a visual journey with favorite aircraft, some of which have served for decades. It’s a perfect book for the pilot—or the pilot wannabe—who dreams of flying in the Northland.
Table of Content
Foreword: Those Who Flew
Introduction: Frontier Flight in the 21st Century
The Interior: A Silencing Cold
Southeast: Land of Mountains and Waterways
Southcentral: Gateway to the Bush
The Arctic: Above the Dazzling White
Western Alaska: Soaring O’er the Delta
About the author
Harmon ‘Bud’ Helmericks was an Arctic explorer, bush pilot and author best known for writing The Last of the Bush Pilots. As one of Alaska’s most famous bush pilots, Bud holds the Award of Merit, Territory of Alaska, for ‘Special Service in the Arctic Regions.’ He couldn’t tell you exactly how many Alaska flight hours he had, because he tired of adding up his flight hours after logging more than 27, 000 hours. He crossed thousands of miles of mostly uninhabited wilderness in small Cessnas on wheels, skis or pontoons. Bud is coauthor and author of several books that are now deemed collectible, among them We Live in the Arctic, We Live in Alaska, The Flight of the Arctic Tern, and The Last of the Bush Pilots.
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