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Noorduyn Norseman float plane in Alaska, 1950. Bush flying refers to aircraft operations carried out in the bush.Bush flying involves operations in rough terrain where there are often no prepared landing strips or runways, frequently necessitating that bush planes be equipped with abnormally large tires, floats, skis or any other equipment necessary for unpaved runway operation.
Clennell Haggerston "Punch" Dickins OC OBE DFC (12 January 1899 – 2 August 1995) was a pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot. [1] Northern Indigenous Canadians called him "Snow Eagle", northern Europeans called him "White Eagle", while the press dubbed him the "Flying Knight of the Northland".
An American Champion Scout.Note the oversized tundra tires, for use on rough surfaces.. A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide both scheduled and unscheduled passenger and flight services to remote, undeveloped areas, such as the Canadian north or bush, Alaskan tundra, the African bush, or savanna, Amazon rainforest and the Australian Outback.
Donald Edward Sheldon (November 21, 1921 – January 26, 1975) was an Alaskan bush pilot who pioneered the technique of glacier landings on Denali [3] during the 1950s and 1960s. From his base in Talkeetna, Alaska , Sheldon operated Talkeetna Air Service, which ferried climbers, hunters, fishermen, and others to places inaccessible to ground ...
Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth is a 22-minute Canadian documentary film, made in 1980 by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and directed by Norma Bailey and Robert Lower. Shot in northern Manitoba , the film explores the myth of the bush pilot as a heroic and iconic figure in the Canada's north.
Reeve quickly learnt that the bush pilot's biggest worry was paying for gas, which could be $0.25 a gallon in one place, and $1.50 in another. [ 4 ] That winter, Reeve was hired to fly supplies to Chisana at 20¢/lb, his base for this was at Christochina, where a small airstrip had been created with high obstacles each end of the runway.
Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America.
In 1952 he founded Bush Pilot Airways, and in 1958 he was awarded the OBE. Knighted in 1989, he had also tenaciously pursued the establishment of a Cairns campus for James Cook University . Sir Robert and Lady Betty Norman contributed to many community organisations including the Cairns Regional Art Gallery (where one wing is named after Lady ...