Flight of the Cargo Ladies
Gerd LePoidevin
August 5, 2015
On a recent flight to the small village of Long Sule, MAF pilot Steve Persenaire told me a little bit about the people who live
On a recent flight to the small village of Long Sule, MAF pilot Steve Persenaire told me a little bit about the people who live
There is an air of excited anticipation so tangible you can almost see it as Matt Monson, our newest pilot, taxis off the runway and
The sunrise was golden. The mountains were beautiful. The plane was cutting smoothly through the crisp air. That’s when my friend, sitting next to me
The KODIAK airplane touched down on the sodden runway outside the village of Apahapsili, Papua. MAF pilot Daniel Perez had landed in isolated villages like
MAF Pilot Dave Ringenberg recently carried an unusual cargo—2,221 pounds of tile for the floor of the church in the village of Holuwan in Papua,
In Kalimantan, Indonesia, MAF pilot Paul College had an unplanned stop in Binawang, on a day when he was running late. Daylight was fading as
We hadn’t flown in almost a week. The entire country of Lesotho was hit with a powerful snow storm that left most of our airstrips
Everything went dead. Great, I thought. This power outage would probably last at least eight hours. The list of tasks that needed electricity ran through
Editor’s Note: Dan Lenz is a former MAF pilot. This is taken from a letter written in 1992 to his supporters while he was serving
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