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Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News A US Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet climbs vertically.

Ron Duncan, president and CEO of GCI, pilots the company Cessna Citation V near the summit of Mount McKinley during a recent flightseeing trip.

A jet takes off from Ted Stevens International Airport as the sun sets over Sleeping Lady across Cook Inlet and Point Woronzof in Anchorage.

Eleven-year-old Bailey Kile of Anchorage, a sixth-grader at Bear Valley Elementary School, flies above a simulated view of Turnagain Arm as she operates the Microsoft Flight Simulator.

A DeHavilland turbine Otter ski plane operated by K2 Aviation parked on the Ruth Glacier last Spring in the Don Sheldon amphitheater which is a popular destination for flight seeing and glacier landings with it's spectacular view of Mount McKinley, left, North America's highest peak at 20,320-foot tall.

Paul Gilbert of Grand Lake, Co. records the scene at Ruth Amphitheater while taking a flightseeing tour of Mt. McKinley.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

An F-15 is towed through downtown Anchorage on it's way to the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum. Museum staff will restore the retired jet which the Air Force donated. The aircraft goes from service as a ground training aircraft to the museum's Military Expeditions Exhibit.

An airplane flies over a pattern of windblown ice and snow near the coast of eastern Norton Sound.

The summits of Mount McKinley, as viewed from 25,000 feet while flightseeing, cast miles long shadow on the mountains to the east as the sun began to set.

Parked airplanes at the Palmer Municipal Airport.

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