Merry Christmas from Alaska

Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

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Cook Inlet Morning View

Traffic

Japan Airlines traffic passing over Alaska.

Moon Rise 32,000 Feet

Advantage of the Early Flight

The advantage of the early flight is this sight...

... then the next day...

... and the next day...

... each morning brings a nice sunrise, too bad it includes getting up way before the crack of dawn.

Just Before Sunrise

Aurora Borealis

Birdmen's view of the Northern Lights - the Aurora Borealis

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Evening Flight to Bethel

Photo credit: Carl Kohntopp

Bethel Alaska 11/21/2017

Everts Air Cargo DC9 N932CE

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N451CE Taxi Out PANC

One dark and rainy morning N451CE is on the move.

Kotzebue

The joys of starting the wintertime operations and the anti-ice spray down.

Welcome to Kotzebue - or any village Alaska.

DC6 Fly By

Gotta love the good old days flying around Alaska at 10,000 feet.

Last bit of Summer

The last bit of summer showing as Denali is about to start putting on a fresh thick winter coat.

Mt. Redoubt ~ Feeling Better

Mt. Redoubt feeling better and all cooled down for the time being.

SCC ~Deadhorse

Turned out to be a nice fall day in Deadhorse. 

Not too shabby for the North Slope.

Mt. Iliamna

Mt. Iliamna from the Northwest looking out towards the Cook Inlet.

Mt. Redoubt

Mt. Redoubt letting off a little steam. Must have been a tough day.

Denali High & Mighty

Summer time view of Denali at 20,310 feet, and Mt. Foraker at 17,402 feet.

DC9 in for Maintenance

Live'in the Dream

Supper in Bethel after a long day, Mongolian beef takeout from the only restaurants still open at 10:45 pm. A maintenance issue kept the crew and the aircraft overnight in Bethel awaiting the arrival of a mechanic in the morning.

Cold & Dark Mornings

Kotzebue Sunrise

Wheelie

Photo credit to M. Kell

Just a bit tail heavy with snow. 

A retired Northern Air Cargo DC6 at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

Aviation Haiku

Utquigvik 1:15 pm 25kts wind out of the south

Take flight to Fairbanks
My wife drove to save Christmas
I’m living the Dream?