Drop Ins — Ski Flyers
Short | 7 months ago
When my backyard freezes it means drop-in skiplanes. Unfortunately, I never catch their landings because they text me as they're taxiing up to my shoreline: "Just landed on the lake. You home?" It's cool. I love it. Come visit anytime. I'll film you with my...
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DHC-2 Beaver Takeoff In Canadian Backcountry
Short | 1 years ago
Video courtesy of Aviat Husky pilot Jeremy Dresel of Chisago City, Minnesota
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Starting up the Super Cub on Skis #aviation #bushplane #minnesota #skiflying #supercub
Short | 1 years ago
6" of fresh, cold, dry snow on a frozen lake in northern Minnesota—perfect for laying down tracks in the Super Cub on Federal AWB 2100 retractable skis.
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Ice & Snow — Minnesota Edition
Short | 1 years ago
If you stop by the northern Minnesota BCP HQ on floats or skis, there's a good chance that 2-3 years later I'll publish a 5 minute video about it. Our latest "Salvage Short," shot on a really cold and stuttering iPhone 14, features Super Cub pilot Jeremy Ha...
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Wolf — The Whiskey Blue Midwest Tour
Video | 2 years ago
I met my friend Wolf Herold for the first time this week. He's a 73-year-old German pilot living out his dream—the timeless romance of the aimless cross-country airplane adventure in America. He visited my backyard in northern Minnesota and took me on a fli...
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Local Sighting: The Ascender
Video | 2 years ago
Reuploaded uncropped. Damn the Devil's aspect ratio. Left it on Instagram. Sad news: I did not get to go for a ride with Alec in the Ascender when he dropped in to my airport. Was all set to shoot some action but experienced some aeroelectrical setbacks so ...
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Floats.MN:RAW
Review | 3 years ago
Stick all the way back! Swing your legs into the cockpit of a flapless 160hp PA-18 Super Cub and join us for nearly 12 action-packed minutes of northern Minnesota float flying action. For my 10th biennial flight review, I strapped my GoPro Hero Mini 11 to m...
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Workhorse
Video | 3 years ago
Last week I caught a USFS DHC-2 Beaver doing touch and goes at my neighborhood airport in northeast Minnesota, so like any reasonable fan of this legendary radial engine bush plane, I shot some video of it with my iPhone. I hope you all can appreciate the b...
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Cessna 170B— Hilltop airstrip landing and takeoff in the Alaska Range #cessna170 #Alaska
Short | 3 years ago
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Beautiful STOL—Short Landing SQ-12 Bush Plane Modern Super Cub/Cruiser Alaska River Bar
Short | 3 years ago
A scene from Deja Vu, Alaska, playing on Alaska’s Knick River gravel bars. Aircraft is a Backcountry Super Cubs SQ-12, a modernized upgraded version of the Piper PA-12.
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Cessna 170B Taxiing for Takeoff Northern Minnesota (Preview)
Review | 4 years ago
Major life change so not much new from BCP films these days (sorry), but I have a short thing I'm working on from back in late summer in an effort to get back in the groove of producing and editing. Here's a footage preview featuring a beautiful Cessna 170B...
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1 Minute Film: Doorways
Review | 6 years ago
Locked down, digging through the unused old stuff! 6 years ago, some miles south of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, we ran into some rain/snow showers that were...just right. Not too oppressive, but beautiful and fun to weave around, like a valley of waterfa...
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