Rising Temperatures: Thawing Permafrost

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This is the third and last part of a three-part article series about rising temperatures impacts on aviation. Part one focuses on range and payload and part two focuses on infrastructure. Alaska has 84 commercial airports and more than 3,000 airstrips, many of which serve as the only means of...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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