Alaska Wing Men (2011)
Alaska Wing Men is an American documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel. The show primarily follows the daily lives of bush pilots that fly to and from various small rural villages throughout Alaska. The series premiered on January 10, 2011
Seasons & Episode
The pilots offer aerial support to teams competing in the 2000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race across rugged Alaskan terrain in the Season 2 opener
Helicopter pilot Dustin Carroll drops pro skiers atop mountains for a movie they're filming on the extreme slopes of Alaska. Meanwhile, another pilot helps a young Texan find a remote spot to propose to his girlfriend.
Sac-roe herring season opens in Sitka Sound, and fishermen hire pilots to spot fish from the sky and point their boats in the right direction.
Pilot Keller Wattum flies to Kodiak Island to help a hunter transport his prize kill: a huge Kodiak brown bear that could be of record-breaking size. Elsewhere, a student pilot practices glacier landing
Small Alaskan towns like Noorvik face challenges when it comes to overcrowded prison cells, so pilot Zaz Staheli must transport an intoxicated female prisoner to the nearest jail.
It’s time for Don Lee to teach his student, Amy - a former peace studies major - the finer points of gunplay and how to shoot and kill a charging bear!
Untamed terrain and dangerous beauty draw people to Alaska from all walks of life, but it takes highly skilled bush pilots to fly people in and out of its remote wilds.
In Alaska’s untamed wilderness even the simplest jobs can be filled with danger, and it takes expert pilots like Drake Olson, Dustin Carroll, and Jag Garrard to make sure the state’s most basic services keep running.
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