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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Wien Alaska Airlines
Fairchild F27-A Propjet over The University of Alaska near Fairbanks
Wien Alaska Airlines operated in Alaska for 60 years, from 1924 to 1984. The Fairchild F-27 was a 1950's era twin-turboprop passenger aircraft. Posthip Scott sent me the above photo. Rooting around for more info I uncovered a cache of old photos on Alaska's Digital Archives. Some of them are pretty cool.
AIRCRAFT
First airplane operation in Nome - Seward peninsula area
Loading Wien Norseman Floatplane at Kotzebue Alaska Yes, floatplanes can land on water, but do you want to do that when there are chunks of ice there as well?
Signs of Spring Changing from skis to floats
Sigurd Wien by Cessna aircraft on sea ice at Nome That's the ocean just past the dogs on the left hand side. 'Sea ice' means he landed on an ice berg.
LIFE
Christine Steve post mistress and agent Stebbins Alaska
Eskimo lady pegging out large seal skins to dry at Point Hope
P.S. It took some time to download all the photos from the Alaskan archive (could they still be using dial up modems?) and I don't really have any place else on the net where I can display them, and then find them reliably. Nothing else has really panned out. Picasa is dead. Well, it's there, but it's a mausoleum. Nothing lives there. Flickr is for you own photos, not stuff you stole. Tumblr gives you a channel and lets you post pictures, but it's much the same as Blogger. Pinterest has lots of pictures, but no information about said pictures, like where they came from, or what's in the picture, or why it's there or really anything at all.
P.P.S. Most of the location names link to the same Google Mapwhich has all the named locations plotted, but we don't have anything on the North Coast. That will have to wait for oil exploration.
Great post, just linked it to the fb Wien airlines group
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