Post by Bernard on Aug 31, 2024 10:19:47 GMT
I recreated a Reeves Aleutian Airlines flight done in 1955 to Attu, the most Western Alaskan outpost and the most near airport to the highly militarized Kamchatka Peninsula of former Soviet Union.
The scheduled DC-3 leaving Anchorage
approaching Kodiak Airport
flying over Mount Griggs
reaching Gold Bay
On the way further western, it flies over the Frosty Peak Volcano
and have to face rainny conditions
later on a stopver at Amchikta
as well as at Shemya
Finally the DC-3 reaches on its long flight Attu Island
and the Airport and Naval Air Station
What is remarkable is the fact that the entire and quite long light took place exclusively in daylight and obviously followed the ongoing time of day change and therefore did not have any major time deviations.
BTW, it certainly is very little known, that in 1920, Russian leader Vladimir Lenin offered a 60-year lease of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the United States. Why the hell they didn't accepted?
Bernard