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The Great Arctic Air Adventure
Cool site found via Twitter:
CANADIAN HISTORIAN Robert McGhee describes the Arctic as the “The Last Imaginary Place.” In a world where Darwin’s Galapagos can be reached in a few hours and viewed from the comfort of a cruise liner, the relatively inaccessible Arctic remains an enigma. This is a place of no roads, no arable land, and no wood. The Arctic is unyielding – they soon learned that visitors must adapt. The simple task of fueling the thirsty Beavers entailed wrestling drums and jerry cans to the aircraft and pumping more than 1200 lbs. of fuel – by hand – usually in a driving rain. Four to eight hours later they’d be on their way.
Mark and Doug elected to fly the Beavers on “straight floats,” thus gaining access to thousands of remote Arctic lakes only reachable by floatplane or on foot. As romantic as this notion sounded, from a practical standpoint, all fuel and supply depots had to be water accessible, limiting the available resupply sites. The greedy Beavers would consume nearly 6,000 gallons of fuel through the trip, requiring fuel depots every few hundred miles. In addition, Beaver N67DN was specially outfitted with extended range fuel tanks in order to make the 8 hour round trip from Eureka to the Magnetic Pole – a quest not realized due to ice flows clogging the landing site in Eureka, a remote weather outpost at the eightieth parallel.
THEIR TIME MACHINE, the venerable de Havilland Beaver seaplane, provided unique access to this unfamiliar place…
Amazing photos!
Found this in my search for Bear-4
..Bear Grylls paramotors Mount Everest.
More here
Hi-Def Video from The Edge of Space
Starting an aerial photography business
Starting an aerial photography business, using planes, helicopters, ultralights and kites!
UPDATE: Or, maybe…balloons? Via Photojojo – Aerial Balloon photography
