Alaskan bush pilots are responsible for things like ferrying supplies to remote villages and backcountry tourism. Insider spoke to two bush pilots, Chad Smith and Hailey Zirkle, who currently fly to ...

Bush pilots operate in remote areas worldwide with little operational support. Career success and survival require excellent backcountry flying skills, self-reliance and resourcefulness, and above all ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Aviator: Bush Pilot Get ready to pack your gear and fly off into the wilderness of the endless plains! As the busy operator of a hangar and runway in the ...

These tales of Alaska's fearless bush pilots show the hazards of the job, and the grit of the pilots who managed to make it ...

A famed bush pilot and former star of a Discovery Channel series documenting his uncharted flights into the Alaska wilderness died in a plane crash Friday, along with his passenger, according to state ...

Travel into the world of the Alaskan Bush Pilot, a world of challenge and danger, not to mention some of the most awe-inspiring sights in the world. There are few runways here, so pilots take off and ...

Jim Tweto, the bush pilot featured in Discovery Channel’s 2011-2012 series Flying Wild Alaska, died in a small plane crash Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, Alaska. He was 68. Also killed ...

Bush pilots are to Alaska what Pony Express riders were to the Wild West. For nearly 100 years they have tamed America’s last frontier by combining the raw survival skills and courage of explorers ...