RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:CGBack in the Transair/PWA days we used to do some pretty obnoxiuos flights. We used to take a gravel equiped Boeing 737 into places like Cambridge Bay or Hall Beach for dew line deployment.
They had a 5000 foot gravel strip and we would go there in the middle of the night because you could see the runway lights then... I was in Hall Beach which sounds like a really nice place and it was about 20 below at the end of June so I ask the radio operator, when is summer around here? He looks up from his "work" which looked to me to be some kind of comic book and replied with no expression whatsoever, "last year it was on a Tuesday". No joke.
My old dog Possum came home as a 6 week old pup from Halifax to Vancouver in the front of a 67 in my flight bag and then managed to get out of the cockpit to first class when a flight attendand opened the door. Snakes on a plane! One woman screamed and the old lady sitting across from her said, "it's a f*****g puppy honey. Cool down". I got in a bit of trouble over that but it was worth it.