Synopses & Reviews
Every March, the world watches as mushers and their dogs race across 1,000 miles in the Iditarod, but few spectators notice the other daring crew criss-crossing Alaska to support the Last Great Race®. Calling themselves the Iditarod Air Force, these volunteer pilots fly through some of the nation's worst weather to transport food, supplies, people, and dogs along the trail. ADVENTURES OF THE IDITAROD AIR FORCE shows how this sidelight to the race is often as exciting as the main event. Ted Mattson, himself a pilot who flew for the Iditarod, tells twenty-five years' worth of tales about the exploits of these pilots. Imagine yourself there as a search team flies through a blizzard to rescue four mushers lost in the storm...Danny Davidson saves his plane by taking off from a sheet of ice floating out to sea...Bill Kramer lands his Cessna while a dogfight breaks out in the back seat...a pilot and a photographer barely survive a devastating plane crash...and many more accounts of aerial high jinx and heroics.
Synopsis
Ted Mattson gets some of the best behind-the-scenes Iditarod stories off the ground in this fast-paced collection of tales.