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Fixed-Wing Alaska
Music for Flying
Photo: Frederick Reimers

But Olsen himself is also searching for those perfect moments in the air. Music, he tells me later, helps define those moments, and sure enough he settles on the Pixies song “Where Is My Mind?,” the one from the end of Fight Club when the narrator realizes he’s in a schizophrenic state of sleepwalking and skyscrapers explode all around him. It’s ethereal and searing at the same time, and though Drake has admitted that mountain flying has given him a head of gray hair, that “it can be more than a person wants for sure,” in the moment he isn’t saying much of anything. Enthralled by the song and the windshield full of tilted mountains, we’re all dead quiet as Olsen pulls us through the next perfect turn.

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