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<p>From his days as one of Alaska's earliest bush pilots through the years spent developing Wien Air Alaska with his brothers, Noel Wien built up a long list of firsts: he was first to fly commercially from Fairbanks to Nome and from Fairbanks to Seattle, first to fly from Anchorage to Fairbanks, first to fly and land beyond the Arctic Circle, and first to make a round-trip flight between Alaska and Asia.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wien shared a vision to bring commercial aviation to the Far North, and he acted on it.&nbsp; He had 538 hours of barnstorming and aerial circus stunt flying behind him when he arrived in Alaska in 1924.&nbsp; At that time, Alaska's rugged terrain permitted little more than primitive means of communication and transportation.&nbsp; There were no air charts and no radio communication.&nbsp; Navigation depended solely on a pilot's use of natural features of checkpoints, but the innumerable rivers and mountains too easily could look identical.&nbsp; Safe landing sites were scarce.&nbsp; Wien embraced the challenge presented by these obstacles with courage tempered by his native caution - not to mention exceptional talent and a boundless love of flying.&nbsp; Before

Author

Harkey, Ira, 1918-; Harkey, Ira, 1918- Pioneer bush pilot

Publisher

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781889963150

Subjects

Engineering, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-24