A Floatplane Challenge By Matthew Nelson In July 2004, I went to Idaho to complete my rating as a floatplane pilot that I had started in Alaska in 2002. It doesn’t take most pilots thirty-eight hours in eleven
They Never Saw It Coming By John M. Larsen One day in 1969, I was driving down State Street in Boise, heading for my home on O’Farrell Street, when an emergency vehicle sounded a warning as it came
What I Takes to Move a Museum By Gordon Page Photos courtesy of Spirit of Flight On my very first trip to Idaho in 2006 to monitor the restoration progress of a World War II Boeing B-17 bomber,
Inside an Idaho-Made Industry By John M. Larsen In the fall of 1989, I was a freelance writer who made a proposition to a Caldwell company called Avid Aircraft. I said if the company would give me a
A Backcountry Tradition Ends Story and Photos by Richard H. Holm, Jr. The high-pitched sound of Mike Dorris’s ski-equipped Cessna 185 bound for Warren and various remote ranches along the South Fork of the Salmon River reverberates through
Bombs Away! By John M. Larsen In the air over Marsing in 2017, I saw the place where I had been bombed by the US Army Air Corps in 1945. On the day I flew over this site,
Adventures in Aviation By Crista Videriksen Worthy We descended deep into the canyon of the main Salmon River in our red Cessna 210 and scanned ahead for the Wilson Bar airstrip. Mountains on both sides rose more than
Rough Landing at Cabin Creek By Suz and Iven Iventosch Suz’s Story “We’ll be back for lunch,” my husband, Iven, said as he and our two sons headed out for a morning of flying and fly fishing at
Served Up by the Dog Whisperer By India Caedmon Photos by Stephanie Tsuneko To those of you who are grounded, the Aldape Pass is a dip in the mountains adjacent to the Treasure Valley—a relatively untouched stretch of
An Aerial Firefighter Arrives By Mike Kincaid Flying seaplanes in northern Idaho is fun, and part of that fun is meeting other pilots. A pilot with one of the coolest jobs I’ve met in Idaho is aerial firefighter
