I HOPE ..

MAKE NO MISTAKE .. I FULLY REALIZE HOW BLESSED AND HOW LUCKY AND HOW FORTUNATE I AM TO BE ABLE TO TRAVEL AS I DO. THE ENTIRE POINT OF MY WEBSITE HERE IS TO REALIZE MY DESIRE THAT .. IN SOME SMALL WAY .. ONE OF MY POSTS OR ONE OF MY PHOTOGRAPHS WILL MAKE ONE PERSON'S DAY JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

TO FEEL GOOD .. DO GOOD !

I HOPE THAT SOMEONE VISITING MY WEBSITE WILL SEE SOMETHING ON IT THAT THEY WILL NOT EVER BE ABLE TO SEE OR TO DO OTHERWISE .. AND THAT THIS EXPERIENCE WILL MAKE THEIR DAY OR THEIR LIFE JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER !


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TRULY THIS IS MY DOXOLOGY .. MY PRAISE TO GOD!

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Tuesday 29 July 2014

JUL 29, 14 .. ALASKAN ' SKI ' PLANES ..

The below photos were taken at the Talkeetna Alaska Airport.  Talkeetna is approximately 115 miles north of Anchorage Alaska.  Climbing expeditions on Mt. McKinley often originate in Talkeetna and many of the mountain climbers are flown up to the first base camp on Mt. McKinley from the Talkeetna Airport.  Talkeetna .. a small and charming village .. is well worth a visit.

One of the most famous of all Alaska 'icons' are its ' Bush ' Planes.  Allow me to quote from Wikipedia as follows ..

A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide unscheduled passenger and freight services to remote, undeveloped areas of a country, such as the Alaskan tundra, the Canadian north (or bush), the African bush or the Australian Outback. They are used where ground transportation infrastructure is inadequate or doesn't exist.

A 'Bush' Plane is extremely flexible in that one can land on the ground when configured with tires which will allow it to land on hard .. or relatively hard surfaces .. AND .. they can also land on the water and on the snow as well!  Read on .. 


These two planes are deHavilland Canada DHC-2 Beavers.  The Beavers are perhaps the most famous of all of the 'Bush' Planes.  For all you have ever wanted-to-know about them .. please 'Google' .. deHavilland Canada Beavers.



You can see that the planes in these two photographs are considerably smaller than the deHavilland DHC-2 Beavers.


The wheel-equipped 'Bush' Plane .. can be and are .. re-configured into 'Float' Planes.

I am NOT an aviator!  But I imagine that landing either a 'float equipped' plane or a 'ski equipped' plane onto a concrete runway utilizing its wheels could be a real challenge!  Below is another deHavilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver.

WANTED: IF PER CHANCE a real  ..honest-to-goodness .. experienced Alaskan aviator is reading along here .. which I truly doubt .. but if you are .. would you be so kind as to post a comment below at the end of this post telling all of us IF it is as difficult as I imagine it must be to land 'float equipped' and 'ski equipped' bush planes on concrete or other hard surfaces. 

Look at the size of its floats as compared with its small tires. 


Landing a 'Float' Plane IN THE WATER would not be so much of a big deal in my mind .. after all .. this is where they belong!


I mean really!  Isn't Alaska a beautiful place !



OK !  Lastly .. our same 'Bush' Plane can be configured with skis which will allow them to land on the snow!

Below are more photos of 'Ski' equipped 'Bush' Planes than you ever-wanted-to-see !

Again .. I am NOT an aviator !  I can not quite fathom how these amazing aviators land their planes with floats and / or with skis on concrete or other hard surfaces !  But they most certainly DO JUST THAT ..

Here we go ..

LOOK AT MY SKIS DAD !!





Can you imagine landing a 'Bush' Plane on a concrete runway with skis affixed to your landing gear! 


You must look really closely at the above and the below photos to see that even the small rear wheels have their-very-own skis.


Yet another of the famous deHavilland Canada DHC-2 Beavers.



Look at the size of his skis!


DO YOU ALL WANT TO GAZE UPON BEAUTY ? 

HERE BELOW IS BEAUTIFUL ! And I am NOT an aviator! 

You are looking at an absolutely spotless .. Pratt & Whitney Canada .. 450 HP NINE-CYLINDER RADIAL AIRCRAFT ENGINE!


Now we move to one of the .. REALLY BIG GUYS .. in terms of Alaskan 'Bush' Planes ..

When deHavilland Canada completed their development of the 6 passenger DHC-2 Beaver they moved up to the 10 - 11 passenger DHC-3 Otter.  In terms of our pickup trucks .. the Beaver is more like a half-ton pickup and the Otter is a one-ton ton pickup.

In the below photo is a deHavilland Canada DHC-3 Otter .. if you will .. please notice his cute tail-wheel ski!

Patti sat in our truck .. watching me snap these photographs and giggled as she realized that I was intrigued with these tail-wheel-skis!  Patti said to me .. "What do you think would happen to the plane if .. during a landing or a take-off .. the rear wheel did not have a ski and could 'dig-into-the-snow'!" .. "Um-m-m-m .. 'pucker-marks' in the seat of the plane?" (Oh Captain! How are your readers over in India going to figure out what on this good earth you mean by comment?  I will be seeing you all .. God Willing .. in late November!)


Here is a close-up of his tail-wheel ski !


Big Plane .. Big Skis !



One last look across the Talkeetna Alaska Airport !


"Dad! Oh Dad! You Promised Me Dad!"

"Yes ! I sure did promise to show your photo to my followers !"

He is NOT a 'Bush' Plane !  He IS a hot-shot radical specialized aerobatic stunt plane!

Alone amongst the other mere 'Bush' Planes (in HIS opinion! )


Like they used to say in-the-movies ..

That's all folks ..

Smiles from Cap and from Patti ..

In a few hours .. Patti and I will be .. God Willing .. flying south to Seattle Washington to visit friends for a few days.  Then on Friday August 1st we will fly east to Detroit Michigan to spend three months in-the-east.  On November 12th .. Patti and Godzilla and myself will .. the three of us .. fly to Hong Kong to eat Singapore Rice Noodles.

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