Video of my Misty Fjords flightseeing tour aboard the Island Wings DHC-2 Beaver "Lady Esther" and the photos captured along the way
Flown from Ketchikan, Alaska on July 7, 2016 while cruising the Holland America Nieuw Amasterdam
The scenery of the Misty Fjords National Monument was truly majestic. It's incredible to think mountains rising 3000ft high were once buried and ground smooth under massive ice sheets. Nothing quite captures this unless you are 3000ft up, looking across the horizon and can judge the height of the mountains by their pointed or rounded peaks. Michelle's knowledge of the geology and ecology made for a very educational flight.
The Lady Esther started life as a military plane built by DeHavilland Canada and delivered to the US Army Air Corps on July 23, 1959.
[source: www.dhc-2.com/i...]
She was named after Michelle's grandmother, whom she credits as her inspiration. [www.islandwings...]
The DHC-2 Beaver is legendary in this part of the world and was designed to be perfectly suited to the harsh conditions in which many have operated for over 60 years. The distinctive rumble of the Pratt & Whitney R-985 radial engine is a familiar sound to Alaskans - many of whom live in remote areas only accessible by plane or boat.
My apologies if the video is long by YT standards. The 2 hour flight itself seemed to go by far too quickly and this video was a way for me to preserve the memories of the sights and sounds, both outside and inside the cockpit. To me, they were equally thrilling.
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