(3:15 min) (05 of 17) Back to teaching
Bad fire season too many people crashing. Took job flying for Trans-ocean airways, then flew Korean air lift for military. After war too much competition from Wien Airways so went back to teaching. ...
(3:47 min.) (28 of 28) 28. 737 200 series
George praises the 737 jets, and describes how much he liked the passengers. They liked him playing the harmonica. George also talked about what it takes to make a great career in the airlines.
(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...
(7:50 min) (16 of 17) Medical emergencies & tourist industry While teaching at Ft. Yukon woman was having a breech birth. Agreed to take her, got everything ready and when he called to bring her to airplane the baby was born. Wien drove out...
(9:00 min.) (05 of 09)
Barging
Martha; working close to the land; barge; waves; advice for young people; hovercraft; year round; 75 tons; 30 miles per hour; follows the river; demand; fuel; propane; airlines; schedules; develops better...
04 First jobs in Alaska (5:04 min.) (04 of 09) Lockheed Vega took her to Fairbanks. Bush flying was what she wanted, but she couldn't get hired in Fairbanks. Herb Hagler at Fairbanks Air Service wouldn't give her a job as a pilot, but he told...
12 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Alaska Review Collection, 1978". Film shows men loading furs into a monoplane in Siberia. Aircraft N-Number is partially covered [N?0002].
132 second film clip, color/silent. Title frame shows "Machetanz Collection 1952-1958". Film shows cargo being unloaded from trucks into a F-27 Propjet airplane, passengers boarding the plane, and the plane taking off. Under the pilot's...
26 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Dickson Collection". Film shows the Star Airlines fleet lined up at Merrill Field, a person in walking in the background. The film clip is too dark to see the N-Numbers.
32 second, color/silent film clip. From title frame: "Dickson Collection".BR>Film shows Star Airlines Bellancas flying in formation over Anchorage as seen from inside one of the cockpits.
34 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Bubenicek Collection, late 1950s", Goldmine provenance note reads: "Otto Bubenick Collection". Film shows passengers disembarking a Reeve Aleutian Airlines flight in Valdez. Aircraft...
35 second film clip, color/silent. From title frame: "Phillips Collection". Film shows planes at Northern Consolidated Airlines at Weeks Field in Fairbanks, including a person running, and a mechanic working on a plane. From catalog...