Mayday!You are the copilot - with your cousin, Eddie --of Polaris 180, a small airplane. Through bad weather and mechanical difficulties, you and Eddie fly supplies to people who live in remote areas all over Alaska. When you make an emergency landing in Blue Foot Lake, you meet some archaelogists and explore a cave where prehistoric bones have been discovered. You also run into an angry mother bear and her cubs, and a kidnapped millionaire. But the most thrilling adventure of all happens when Eddie is knocked unconscious -and you have to fly the plane all by yourself! |
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Adventure aileron airplane airspeed Akusara Alaska altimeter altitude Anchorage apply power Armand Forsberg Attitude indicator bank bear beneath blow Blue Foot Lake boulders breath bring the nose bush pilot cabin clear the ridge cliff climb clouds coming controls Cook Inlet crevasse cruise speed cut power dazed and confused degrees downstream drop the nose Eddie is feeling Eddie says Eddie's engine eyes Fashir follow the river gas gauge glance glide going ground hear hike hoping hundred feet ice cave ice wall keep the plane knots Lake Aniuk land look miles ahead mountains mushy Neanderthal okay overshoot parka pass pull back radio rock rocky rubbing his head search plane seat second later shaking shore side smil smoke snow sound spin stall stop stretch sure taxi there's thousand feet thugs tundra turbulence turn the rudder wings yoke Yukon