A helicopter lifts off from a northern community, its patient a logger whose chainsaw accident requires trauma surgery unavailable within hundreds of kilometers. The flight will take forty minutes; the drive would have taken four hours on icy roads. The difference may be his life. A child born prematurely in a small town needs specialized neonatal care. A fixed-wing aircraft carries her to a tertiary center, the medical team aboard providing care that keeps her stable during transit. A family waits for news of their father, injured in a remote area accessible only by air.