Licensed pilot Jessica Cox, 27, encourages students to embrace desire, persistence and fearlessness during her appearance Friday morning November 5, 2010 at Begich Middle School. Cox, who pilots airplanes with her feet, is also the first person without arms to earn a black-belt in the American Tae Kwon-Do Association. "She has some mad skills with her feet," marveled sixth grader Brad Jensen, 11.
Images from one of Alaska's most popular industries and forms of recreation: aviation.
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From bush planes to C-17s and everything in between, Alaska has its own style and stamp on the aviation industry, Post your photos.
A C-17 cargo plane crashed and burned on Elmendorf Air Force Base Wednesday evening July 28, 2010.
Anchorage Police and Firefighters responded to a plane crash at 7th Avenue and Ingra Street on Tuesday, June 1, 2010.
On Jan. 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ventura County. Of the 88 people killed on the flight, five were from Alaska, including Morris Thompson, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Relatives and friends gathered at a memorial to the crash at Port Hueneme Beach in Port Hueneme, Ca. over the weekend for the 10-year anniversary.
Pilot Mike Legler crashed his 1946 Taylorcraft airplane in an unnamed lake east of Seward nearly 16 years ago - and lived. The plane was recovered in July 2009.
The C-17 aircraft has been an important presence in Alaska skies since 2007. It has performed duties as far-ranging as transporting emergency relief supplies to Haiti, transporting troops and taking Maggie the elephant south to California.
Historical planes crashes in Alaska
Although 2010 has seen an inordinate amount of plane crashes, Alaska has been the home to some of the more infamous crashes over the past 50 years.
Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.
Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling
Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.
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Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.
Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.
Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad
Alaska Spring 2012:Reader-submitted
2012 Bear sightings: Reader-submitted
Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis
Reader submitted: 2012 Iditarod
Reader submitted: Fur Rondy 2012
Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan
Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.
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Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing
The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.
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Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.
Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center
Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.
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Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.
Knight's Taxidermy stars in reality TV
Anchorage's urban homesteaders
Red, White and Blue Crew Marching Band
Honoring Service High School's servicemen
Fireweed Lane icon store to close
Kulis prepares to move its operation
Christmas loaves for the community
Lucky Wishbone's 55th anniversary
Memorial: Pfc. William Dawson and Pfc. Jaysine Petree
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