Shot of Pilot Walter Gilbert getting out of plane. LSs of group around Fairchild monoplane on skis, of Fairchild taxiing, flying around settlement, landing on snow. Shot on Inuits watching flight. CS of famous hunter Ikpuk watching "big bird" (plane). Shot of Inuits playing soccer in snow. GROUND TO AIR LS of airplane. AERIAL SHOTs over barren land, over Kugluktuk (formerly known as Coppermine). LS of stream of exhaust fog from airborne plane engines as it flies over Kugluktuk in 40 below zero weather. [titles interspersed]