YUKON WINGS

Yukon Wings is the extraordinary story of aviation in the Yukon andCanada’s far north, from its earliest beginnings with primitive wood and canvasbiplanes to the sophistication of the modern jet age.

It is the story of almost superhumanperseverance against accidents, disasters, impossible operating conditions andheartbreaking disappointments that would have crushed the spirits of lessermen.

It is the story of faith andcourage, of pilots who flew aircraft made of wood, steel and cloth, inconditions of bitter cold, relentless snow and zero visibility, often throughunforgiving mountain passes that had taken the lives of airmen before them.

It is a storyof the feistiness and guts of men who defied crazy odds to sink everything they owned into their fledgling air services only to lose it all in some horrificsetback, then come back and begin anew – not just once, but over and over.

It is the story of hard-drivingcompetitors who fought tooth-and-nail for their share of the market, inefiance of all “common sense” standards of normal business practice.

It is a story of men who challenged40-below temperatures to overhaul a seized engine under an improvised canvastent hundreds of miles from civilization, or who desperately struggled to savea valuable airplane from a watery grave as it clung precariously to the thinice of a spring thaw.

It is the story of the triumphs andtragedies of men who tenaciously persisted in their determination to bring safeand reliable air service to a frontier land.