Ask Ray Willard how he feels about his job flying 747 cargo jets around the world and he has a quick answer: “Sure beats working.” That’s how much Willard enjoys his career as a jet pilot, something he says he “stumbled into.”
Willard grew up in Klukwan and Haines. His father, Evans Willard, was a commercial fisherman who gillnetted Lynn Canal before moving out to Bristol Bay. Willard is proud of his Tlingit roots and…