Politicians and Planes: Flying the Polar Express
State Sen. Donald Olson knows all too well the risks of flying in the unforgiving landscape of the Alaskan bush: His two brothers and father, as well as several friends, died in aviation accidents. When Olson's father disappeared on a flight into a blizzard in 1980, he said goodbye to the family one by one via radio transmission. But that hasn't prevented aviation from permeating all aspects of Olson's life -- from reindeer herding in an R22 to flying to the North Pole in an antique Russian biplane. Read more.
This story published in Aviation eBrief on 10/27/2009
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