On a recent trip to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for MAF, I watched the freaked-out reaction of several first-time fliers. ...
A ‘Barn-Raising’ – Congo Style
Black, thick, foot-deep mud is so much fun to sink into when you’re barefoot, and it’s supposed to be there…inside a house…in every room. This is ...
One Flight at a Time
Video by Rich Thompson, MAF Australia On the morning of 24 April, Bishnu Gurung and his friend walked along a narrow trail cut into a steep ...
Welcome Home, Chuol
Everyone has a story to tell, but it’s easy to forget, even for someone whose job it is to find and tell those stories. Often it becomes a blur of ...
Chad
I just returned from Chad, a country I knew very little about before I went. If you do have any knowledge of the place, it will most likely ...
In the Land of 800 Airstrips
Bangladesh is a country filled with endless airstrips…if you’re a floatplane. There’s no better bush plane you could have. With over 800 ...
Waterworld
If you asked for one word to describe Bangladesh, it would have to be “water.” It’s everywhere, more than any place I’ve ever seen, and not exactly ...
10 of My Favorite Things
There are so many cool things I've seen in the last four months. I thought I'd pick 10 of my favorites from Madagascar and South Sudan since ...
Small Strips of Earth
The airstrip at Korr, Kenya I’ve flown into many interesting airstrips with MAF. Some are short, some neglected, some with roads or paths that cross ...
A Year of Firsts
Sometimes it hits me that I have an unusual number of “firsts” in my life, and this year with MAF will most definitely fill my life to overflowing. I ...