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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Oman to Jordan to Israel. Satellite data provided by. LEG 10: Male International (VRMM), Maldives, to Seeb International (OOMS), Muscat, Oman: 9 August 1998. The Maldives, Kuda Huraa Resort, 5 to 9 August 1998. The string of water villas at Kuda Huraa, as seen from our boat on departure. We also made good use of our time in the Maldives planning the next few legs of the trip as far as Israel, where we were going to visit John’s sister, Julie. Universal ...While ...

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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Satellite data provided by The Living Earth. NVVV-YBCS, Port Vila, Vanuatu to Cairns, Australia, 30 July 98, 7.0 hours. What a relief to be finished with the dateline! See if you can follow the itinerary to date. We had quite a bit of difficulty getting and keeping this straight. After a night’s rest, we launch on July 25 to land 3 hours later at Nadi, Fiji on July 26! How is this all possible? Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Pacific is behind us now. San Jo...

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The Ponceby World Flight 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Track Doug Cayne and John Fulton's. Flight around the World. Satellite data provided by. Click near each end of the red arrows for progressive reports. The following Legs for Progressive Reports. San Jose, CA. San Jose, CA to Honolulu, HI. Honolulu, HI to Christmas Island, Kiribati. Christmas Island, Kiribati to Apia, Western Samoa. Apia, Western Samoa to Nadi and Matei, Fiji. Nadi and Matei, Fiji to Port Vila, Vanuatu. Port Vila, Vanuatu to Cairns, Australia.

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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Satellite data provided by The Living Earth. YBCS-YPDN (Cairns to Darwin, Australia) 31 July 1998 4.6 hours. Awfully bleak terrain West of Cairns, Australia. A few notes on navigation:. Enroute from GULOP to GUGUK, over Australia’s Cape York peninsula. The photo above shows our normal navigation setup (apologies for the grainy picture, this is the best macro that we could get with the digital camera). Enroute from GULOP to GUGUK, a view out the window. Bangor, M...

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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Kiribati to Western Samoa. Satellite data provided by The Living Earth. NSFA-NFFN and NFFN-NFNM, Apia, Western Samoa to Nadi, and Nadi to Taveuni, Fiji, 26 July 98, 3.5 hours and 1.0 hours. Doug on the beach at Qamea. Our boatman from Qamea, taking us back to Taveuni to visit Whiskey-Whiskey. John giving navigational instruction to our boatman. A view from the Qamea Beach Club, looking towards Taveuni (where we landed). The case of the missing pitot covers….

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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Satellite data provided by The Living Earth. YPDN-WSSL Darwin, Australia to Singapore Seletar 1 August 1998 8.5 hours. Bali, Bali, This is November Eight Niner Eight Whiskey Whiskey position on one one, How Copy? November Whiskey Whiskey, Bali I read you three, go ahead. Indonesian volcanoes glide by below. Lush Borneo passes to starboard as the Java gives way to the South China Sea. Now This is beginning to feel exotic. The timer has also proved useful as a rem...

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World flight - About The Pilots

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Email list for news about the next flight. John Baskerville Fulton II, 34, grad student UC Berkeley, Astrophysics. 14,000 hours TT, ATP ASEL ASES AMEL AMES Glider Gyro Helicopter G111. Misspent youth is John’s characterization of his unusually extensive flying background. He has flown over 170 types of aircraft and currently skippers a Grumman Albatross for Mr. Reid Dennis who flew that aircraft around the world in 1997. John flying the Yak 52. Douglas A Cayne, 40, bohemian retiree. Doug developed wander...

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World flight of Doug Cayne & John Fulton 1998

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Email list for news about the next flight. Western Samoa to Fiji. Satellite data provided by The Living Earth. PLCH-NSFA, Christmas Island, Kiribati, to Apia, Western Samoa, 24 July 98, 6.5 hours. At the Captain Cook Hotel, we were able to drink spirituous liquor; is there any other kind? Scenes from the drive to Cassidy Airport on Christmas Island, Kiribati. TwOtter pilots Paul and Tom at the Cassidy Airport Arrival Lounge on Christmas Island, after fueling their plane. At Christmas Island, so food was ...