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BW-1 or "Bluie West One" was a remote airfield located near Narsarsuraq, Greenland. During World War II, the airfield served as a stopover point for aircraft making the treacherous Atlantic Crossing from Goose Bay, Newfoundland, to England or Scotland.

Successfully navigating to Bluie West One required skill, prospective customers had to first select the correct fjord to gain access. Only one of three nearly identical fjord mouths would lead to the airfield. The other two would terminate at the end of a dead end canyon, with walls too high to climb over, and without enough room to turn around!

Thus it was that the act of "Feelin' Blue" became a mating dance more intricate and ultimately satisfying than any other local variety of aviator's dalliance. Hundreds of thousands of aircraft passed through Bluie West One (some safely, some not) until it's closure as a military base in 1958.

Today, the airport at Narsarsuraq still serves civilian air traffic, but has never...

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