His Dad Was The World's First Bush Pilot | Richard Wien Interview

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Coffee In A Hangar

Daniel Maccarone

22 episodes

3 days ago

Interview with pilots who tell stories about their adventures, lessons learned and laughs had. Mainly Alaska based bush pilots who tell stories of growing up in the wilderness of the last frontier.

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Interview with pilots who tell stories about their adventures, lessons learned and laughs had. Mainly Alaska based bush pilots who tell stories of growing up in the wilderness of the last frontier.

Aviation

Leisure

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His Dad Was The World's First Bush Pilot | Richard Wien Interview | Coffee In A Hangar - Ep 21

Coffee In A Hangar

1 hour 34 minutes 26 seconds

2 weeks ago

His Dad Was The World's First Bush Pilot | Richard Wien Interview | Coffee In A Hangar - Ep 21

Sponsored by: Sportaircraftseats.comCoffeeinahangar.com to sign up for our email listRichard's Book - The Flying Wiens: https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Wiens-Richard-Wien/dp/157833876XJames T. Hutchison Repairing Fairchild 71 Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQn5DRSstq8Olaf Swenson's Book - Northwest Of The WorldIn the 1920s, the first Alaskan aviators flew into a world that was constantly trying to kill them. With no maps, compasses that were inaccurate, unreliable engines, and open cockpit airplanes... These pilots operated over hundreds of miles of hostile un-improving wilderness, with no fields, roads or runways to land on. And all this with the same old terrible Alaskan weather.They weren’t just aviators, they were cartographers, inventors, backcountry mechanics, explorers, and arctic survival experts. Willing to walk hundreds of miles at the drop of a hat, or repair an engine under a tarp in a blizzard. From polar flights, to connecting america with Asia, Many paid the ultimate price with their lives to pave the way for modern cross continental travel and the commercial aviation industry that we know today.My guest today is the living bridge to that era, his name is Richard Wien. In the 1920s His father Noel Wien at only 24 years old, started Alaska’s first commercial flying operation. Noel is widely regarded as the first bush pilot. And his son Richard grew up flying with and learning from those original bush pilots. He is here to tell us the story of these aviation pioneers.