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Many beautiful photos of Super Cubs and remote Alaska.

https://shaunlunt.typepad.com/shootings/2007/05/index.html

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ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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A shame, great photos, led a pretty admirable short life. But, there ain't no old bold pilots. You are betting your life on the internal combustion engine when you push STOL to the very limits.


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This is awesome. Such beautiful photos and places. Wish you well and God bless

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I really enjoyed this, thanks alot.


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Nice pics. Aviation, even back country flying, can really be pretty safe but it's unforgiving of sloppiness.

https://www.akfatal.net/Lunt%2006-06-08.htm


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Bud Helmricks said in his book, "Bush Pilot" that "one can play cat and mouse with Alaska's weather. Just remember who is mouse."

That might be paraphrased a bit.


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That young man did in one summer what took me 50+ years to see driving Super Cubs.


ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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Hunting sheep in the Alaska range I walked up a pass. At the top was the wreckage of a plane that made an error.
I was going to take the piece of dash , but left it instead.
I always wondered who it was and what happened.


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Some of those Passes have a dozen or more wrecked planes. One looks like a junk yard. There are planes up there full of humans, that it was too dangerous to access the crash site.


ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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Definitely worth clicking the link and looking at the photos and his website. Just amazing country.

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Tag[to spend more time checking out the photography].
Thanks for posting the link.


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ALASKA IS ON MY BUCKET LIST !

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Sad to see. Those are some really amazing pictures though, it looks even better in person. My wife and I just honeymooned all over the Kenai Peninsula. Some of these places look very familiar.


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superb!
nice picture...thanks for sharing

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Seeing is not experiencing

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Originally Posted by LongSpurHunter
Seeing is not experiencing



So very true.......


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Originally Posted by LongSpurHunter
Seeing is not experiencing


It can be, if you spend 40+ Years flying your own Super Cubs, and your employers Super Cubs all over Alaska, and ferrying aircraft back and forth from the lower 48.

(You also get to experience heart stopping fear, plus "experience" the thrill of crashing three times)


ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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Originally Posted by AGL4now


It can be, if you spend 40+ Years flying your own Super Cubs, and your employers Super Cubs all over Alaska, and ferrying aircraft back and forth from the lower 48.

(You also get to experience heart stopping fear, plus "experience" the thrill of crashing three times)


I think he was referring to experiencing the backcountry rather than the experience of flying over it..


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Originally Posted by AGL4now


It can be, if you spend 40+ Years flying your own Super Cubs, and your employers Super Cubs all over Alaska, and ferrying aircraft back and forth from the lower 48.

(You also get to experience heart stopping fear, plus "experience" the thrill of crashing three times)


I think he was referring to experiencing the backcountry rather than the experience of flying over it..


Oh......Experiencing like living on majestic "Lake Clark" or like homesteading 50 years ago in the "Clearwater Country" by the headwaters of the Mighty Susitna River.......???


ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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