Title taken from verso. View of dogsled passing in front of Concorde jet at Fairbanks, Alaska during cold weather testing, with air traffic control tower in right background. Feb. 1974. Photographer: Wien Consolidated Airlines. Original photograph...
Title taken from verso. View of British Airways Concorde jet in front of Wien Consolidated Airlines during cold weather testing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Printed on airplane: "British Airways." Feb. 1974. Photographer: Wien Consolidated Airlines....
Aerial view of Boeing 737 jet on airstrip at Fort Yukon, Alaska, with buildings in background. From verso: "Taken at F[ort] Yu[kon] when Boeing was testing 727's gravel deflector, 1967. Ft. Yukon." 1967. Original photograph size: 8 1/2" x 11".
(4:08 min.) (17 of 28) 17. Virginia comes to Alaska
Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
(5:36 min.) (18 of 28) 18. Virginia's students
Virginia's students were varied -- a man who became a jet pilot, a prostitute, and a construction worker named Bullwinkle. She discusses some of her flights to Manly and other interior...
(4:26 min.) (19 of 28) 19. Women pilots Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.
(5:01 min.) (22 of 28) 22. Flying in western Alaska
George still needed his multi-engine rating, couldn't borrow the company plane. So he quit Pan Am and started flying along the Kuskokwim for Northern Consolidated. Towns in the western...
Title taken from caption. View of Clarence F. Maynard testing his equipment near Kodiak. Identity based on fact that Maynard is the only topographer listed as part of the 1917 expedition. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on...
Title taken from verso. View of Concorde jet during cold weather tests at Wien Consolidated Airlines hangar in Fairbanks, Alaska. Feb. 1974. Photographer: Wien Consolidated Airlines. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5".
Title taken from caption. View of test hole drilled through permafrost for oil drilling operations at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. 1970's. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of pipe head on Trans-Alaska Pipeline where "pig" is inserted to perform hydro test and cleaning of pipeline, probably between Franklin Bluffs and Pump Station 3 on North Slope in Alaska. Aug. 1975. Photographer: Steve...
Title taken from verso. View of helicopter and soil testing crew at work on Chandalar Shelf south of Atigun Pass in Interior Alaska, in preparation for Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. Also from verso: "Chandalar Bench approaching Atigun Pass."...
Title taken from verso. View of soil testing and drilling crew with equipment on Chandalar Shelf in Interior Alaska, preparing for Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction, with helicopter in right background. Aug. 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon....
A dozen men gather around floatplane at dock Notes on verso: "Myself in cockpit, turning the plane around, getting ready for a flight, 3:30 A.M."; "This was morning of the first test flight of Jenny on float"; "Note Shell Simmons in front of...