While in Valdez for our RV adventure, we spent a whole day taking in the Alaska aviation experience at the 2008 May Day Fly-In. This event is truly a unique experience for the pilots and fans of bush flying and real Alaska aviation. Pilots fly in from all around the country, pitch a tent under their wings and spend a weekend enjoying beach landings, flour bombing and STOL competitions. If you’re into flying at all, this is a must see event!
Hope you enjoy this sampling of “kites on wheels”!
-Kevin
June 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
loved the fly in, didn’t know about it Scott. Thanks, very interesting. Gary
June 7th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Excellent podcast! I love the aviation themed podcasts!
I hope that Cirrus got out of there OK.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Excelente, muy bien narrado, las tomas son de primera, felicitaciones a Alaska HDTV
June 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Nicely done! Thanks for posting! Great quality…. Ron
June 8th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Loved the fly-in as one that wished he was there anything you can doo is appreciated
ever though of doing the old AF sites it would be somethimg to see what they look like now? on google earth I can find them but a vid from the ground would be good
how about just a walk down Nome’s main street, last time i was there was in the 70s
THANK YOU
jerry
June 8th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Love the show. Great presentation. First time, I have seen a beach landing
Thanks for sharing the podcast.
June 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
my favorite alaskaHDTV epsiode so far.
my obsession for alaska started with northern exposure.. i was a bit disappointed when i heard that they didn’t even film it in alaska.. still the interest stays.
thanks for sharing.
tom
June 9th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Wow, great comments. Thanks for the positive feedback on the show - we had a great time in Valdez, suffered sunburn and hours upon hours of take offs and landings. It was a great trip and I hope to fly to the show next year (even though the RV was great fun too!)
June 14th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Scott, loved the flying episode! My father was a private pilot for many years and it brought back many memories.
Byron
Arizona, USA
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Scott, I just found this podcast on my AppleTV. Outstanding. My father-in-law is a pilot and I am sure he is going to love this episode.
Darrell
Charleston, SC
July 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Great video of the Valdez May Fly In. Of course I’m prejudiced, as I was flying the Lake amphibian for the touch and go at Hitchenbrook beach.
George
Wasilla, AK
July 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Ah a touch and go! I wasn’t sure.
It was among one of the most exciting planes to watch hit the beach. By the way thanks for the email.. I’ll get back to you.
Cheers,
Scott
July 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Cool stuff. I will do that someday. How about a similar video segment on float plane flying.
Mark