Tensions High on Arctic Fuel Delivery | Ice Pilots NWT

The DEW system, the Distant early Warning Line was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada. They are being dismantled by the government but the extreme remote nature of these once secret facilities makes them hard to supply. Over 400,000 litres of diesel fuel need delivering to these radar stations and in perilous conditions.

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Buffalo Airways is an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. They mainly fly WWII-era piston powered propeller planes in minus 40 degrees and land on tiny strips of tarmac in the tundra.

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