Flight to Alaska  by Mustang II - Trip II Experimental Airplane N727RH - Summer, 2005   WARNING: Proper flight planning and preparation is required for all flights to and in Alaska. Attempting to fly this route or duplicate this trip would obviously be AT YOUR OWN RISK. Updated September 9, 2005    Route Map - Northbound    Route Map - Southbound    Journal / story (Text with pop-up windows of images below)    Alaska 2007 flying    Alaska 2006 flight    Alaska 2002 flight All images below EXCEPT those with * are referenced in the Journal

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Flight North to Alaska
Gear to Load Fits, and within CG (104 KB)	IFR on top * 6,000' over Arkansas (43 KB)	North Omaha Very convenient gas station (103 KB)	North Omaha * Good fuel price (110 KB)	Enroute * over South Dakota (54 KB)	Minot, ND Called CANPASS (77 KB)
Regina Final for runway 31 (65 KB)	Edmonton City Centre airport left base for runway 16 (106 KB)	Dawson Creek British Columbia The beginning of the Alaska Highway (70 KB)	Ft. St. John British Columbia (81 KB)	"Sparsely Settled Area" Northeastern British Columbia (70 KB)	Ft. Nelson British Columbia left base for runway 25 (81 KB)
Towering Cumulus over the Alaska Highway south of the airway (46 KB)	Watson Lake, YT Final to runway 26 (57 KB)	Watson Lake, YT Excellent camping (95 KB)	Whitehorse Yukon Territory from 10,000' (112 KB)	Kluane Lake Yukon Territory (63 KB)	Northway, Alaska Cleared US Customs (109 KB)
J-3 Amphibian Northway, Alaska (93 KB)	Northway to Anchorage at 16,000' (76 KB)	Merrill Field Anchorage, Alaska approaching from Ship Creek (82 KB)	View from Ace Hangars room Merrill Field Anchorage, Alaska (Ground photo) (63 KB)
Summer in Alaska
Harding Icefield Several hundred square miles (87 KB)	Harding Icefield (2) On Kenai peninsula between Seward and Homer (98 KB)	Homer Final to runway 21 (41 KB)	Seldovia 1,800' gravel strip in center of photo (90 KB)	Bald Eagle (55 KB)	Bald Eagle feeding Seldovia (120 KB)
Mt. Spurr 80 miles west of Anchorage (55 KB)	Glaciers south of Denali (114 KB)	Denali Mt. McKinley Highest point in North America (123 KB)	West Fork Ruth Glacier next to Denali / Mt. McKinley (152 KB)	10:30 PM in Anchorage another hour until sunset (60 KB)	11:25 PM view northwest Mt. McKinley / Denali 130 miles away (63 KB)
Summer Solstice sunset Longest day: June 20th sunset at 11:42 PM Looking NNW (81 KB)	Moose frequently seen near the Anchorage airport (117 KB)
Flight Southbound from Alaska
About to depart Anchorage August 15th (67 KB)	Tops of the Chugach Mountains Two Minutes after takeoff City of Anchorage below the clouds (35 KB)	Smokey conditions Twenty minutes north- east of Anchorage Visibility continued to worsen (27 KB)	Whitehorse, YT approach plate Flew the DME arc transition from the west (133 KB)	Partial panel approach Going visual on final at Whitehorse after vacuum pump failure (120 KB)	Terrain along the Alaska Highway. (highway not in this photo) (85 KB)
VFR along the Liard River Needing to descend below the cloud deck (50 KB)	Deviating through an area of thunderstorms (64 KB)

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