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The airplane was Alaska's only alternative to the dogsled as a means of crossing the wilderness from town to isolated town, yet air fields were almost nonexistent — bush pilots landed on frozen lakes, glaciers and mud flats. (During the 1930s a third of Alaska's planes were destroyed in crashes, but pilots learned how to "crack up easy" and only sixty-three people died in the decade. ) Though the Territory's history was studded with the names of great aviation pioneers who had flown there — Lindbergh, Balchen, Amundsen, Billy Mitchell, Ben Eielson, Howard Hughes, Wiley Post — few Washington officials had taken note of Alaska's need for air faculties.
The airplane was Alaska's only alternative to the dogsled as a means of crossing the wilderness from town to isolated town, yet air fields were almost nonexistent — bush pilots landed on frozen lakes, glaciers and mud flats. (During the 1930s a third of Alaska's planes were destroyed in crashes, but pilots learned how to "crack up easy" and only sixty-three people died in the decade. ) Though the Territory's history was studded with the names of great aviation pioneers who had flown there — Lindbergh, Balchen, Amundsen, Billy Mitchell, Ben Eielson, Howard Hughes, Wiley Post — few Washington officials had taken note of Alaska's need for air faculties.
Prince down the main street. " Not for some time did Reno forget its sidewalk-level buzzing by a thundering squadron of Air Force bombers. Thus Buckner had on his hands a group of green young pilots, arrogant with ignorance. Few of them were old enough to have known the days when nomadic barnstormers had slept on the prairie beneath the wings of Jennys, but they were all under the spell of the legends. They had joined the Air Corps, as one of them, Lucian Wernick, puts it, "as insurance against having to slog through the dust with packs on our backs," after the enactment of the 1940 draft law.