[QCWA] Monitoring Stn on Maui

[Norm Gertz]

Speaking of unusual airplane events.....I remember coming into Hickam Field 
and seeing a huge 747 with Air India on the side parked in front of the old 
terminal.  Turned out that the Prime Minister had donated a baby elephant to 
the Honolulu Zoo and delivered it in person.  That would have been around 
1985 or so.

73  Norm  K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
To: "Harvey&Bessie" <w4tg at bellsouth.net>
Cc: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Monitoring Stn on Maui


> Yeah Harvey/Bessie I think so.  From my first entry into Hawaii
> with (ARINC) which transferred me to HNL instead of sending
> me back to Miami.  I rode a taxi in from the Airport to a Hotel
> and we were on Beretania part of the time.  I asked the driver
> if that meant something like Britain and he said yes far as I
> can remember.  The funny part was he had a very British accent
> which I had'nt heard since was at ARINC at Naha Airbase.
> Was over there when the first British Comet ever landed
> at the base. It was a flight from Hong Kong to Okinawa and
> we had to install special equipment called "DME" which was
> someting like a trnsponder just for the Comet. "DME" stoof
> for "distance mesureing equipment", and with the Comet you had
> to know your "PNR" (point of no return) right down to the
> Kilometer.  They were takeing no chances they would run short
> onfuel or anything like that.
>                       Joe
>
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