Folks,

This article describes the career of one of our frequent poster's father: http://www.adn.com/article/20140911/ala ... pose-pilot

I've had the pleasure to meet the gentleman, and he is every bit as much a gentleman as he is a pilot. And he's quite the pilot indeed.

Oh, yeah, and his son is definitely cut from the same cloth.....

MTV

Thanks MTV. I love that the ADN/ Alaska Dispatch runs articles like this one.

Nice article, thanks for posting it. I was surprised to see the picture of that Hamilton in the picture, it just so happens that I was at Kenmore Air last month getting a couple of hours in a Beaver, and I looked around the corner in the back lot and that same plane was sitting there on floats, it's a beauty!

Yep, thats my dad. A fine man. Thanks Mike.

Kurt
G44

Wow Kurt, your father and grandfather are legends. Even here in Europe anybody that has to do with bush piloting / sea plane flying / DC-3 flying knows the Wien story. True pioneers. Respect.

Very cool. Legendary.

Awesome read. I enjoy those kind of stories.

When I was a young kid, I met the one Wien brother (Harold) who stayed in Minnesota. He lived near Cook Mn and was a friend of my father. We lived about 25 miles from him. I don't think he was very interested in aviation. Small world in many ways at times. Jim Chuk

Very nice article.

Cary

G44 wrote:Yep, thats my dad. A fine man. Thanks Mike.

Kurt
G44

That's a great article. I love stories like this.

I love this site! So much experience around us, and also some of the most welcoming folk in the interwebs....