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29/05/2008: "PAN AM 707 ........ Landing approach, Sydney 1969"
The much smaller aircraft made refelling stops across the Pacific. Los Angles to Hawaii, then Fiji then Sydney.
I'd departed Sydney with Qantas flying Adelaide, Perth, Singapore. Then Pan Am to Saigon, Manila, Guam.
US Navy sea plane (or flying boat) to Truk, Kapingamarangi, Nukuoro, Truk and Guam.
TWA to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Aloha to Maui and Hilo
Pan Am to Los Angeles, then home to Sydney.
It was my first overseas trip. Many adventures. Exciting flying into the war zone of Vietnam where water-filled bomb craters below marked the safe flying corridor into Saigon, the airport a buzz of military aircraft overhead and on the ground.
Flying in the US NAvy seaplanes was an even higher thrill with water take-off using JATO. (Jet Assisted Take-Off).
In Truk we'd had a snorkel dive with the Cousteau team at work making the first film of the war wrecks in the huge lagoon. Most of these stories are already described elsewhere here in the archives.
