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CAPTAIN BRICK BRADFORD
TEN YEARS WITH ONA
Brick served as a pilot for ONA from February
1968 to March of 1978.
He spent most of his time on the DC-9, only
in the last couple of years did he get on
the DC-8 and do a Hadj session in Jeddah.
Brick went from Captain on the Electra
to the DC-9 and then the DC-8, did
Hajj flights for 2 years and
a few copilot trips on the DC-10 before
the company went out of business.
HADJ FLIGHTS

KING ABDEL AZIZ INT´L AIRPORT
JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA
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Captain Ed Veronelli,
F/O David Mulligan
and F/E Ed Kaye
Photo by courtesy of Ed Kaye

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The Malaga Caper by Brick Bradford
I believe this happened in August of 1976.
Here are the events as I remember them.
Ray Roy and I were positioning to Malaga
to take a flight to New York.
Moore was with us as Flight Engineer.
It was one of those kind of trips.
We had ferried a flight into Tenerife,
and then commercialed to London, expecting
to fly out of London. On the second morning
in London, they called to advise us that we
were to position to Malaga that afternoon.
We were staying in Gatwick and would have
to limo to Heathrow, and fly to Malaga on
Iberian Airlines.
We arrived late afternoon and got a taxi to
the hotel. After checking in, we were walking
towards our rooms when Ray grabbed me and started
dragging me towards the pool.
Protest as I might, I realized he was serious
so I dropped my bags, I had one hand free so I
took my watch off and threw it on the grass along
with my wallet, and dropped my jacket.

Into the pool I went. I managed to swim to the
ladder and climbed out, with much laughter from
the folks sitting around the pool.
I picked up my things, and Ray invited me to
come to his room for a drink.
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I put my bags and jacket in the room,
took my tie off, and went to Ray's room.
We had a quick drink and Ray told me we
were invited to the stewardess´s room
for a drink, the cabin crew had
commercialed in previously.
After socializing and a drink, it was time
for dinner.
It was hot and humid and my wet shirt was
sticking to me, so I left it in the FA's
room. We walked down the beach to find a
restaurant.
Finally I took off my undershirt as it was
wet as well. One of the girls put it in her
hand bag. After dinner, back to the hotel
and bed.
At show time the next morning we were meeting
in the lobby, when I saw 2 girls
in ONA FA's uniforms, sitting demurely in
the lobby.
When our girls began to show up, I said to
one of them,
"Who are those girls".
"Oh, she said, they are a couple of new girls
on a "Fam" flight with us".
As the rest of the crew showed up, one girl
said, "Brick, here is your shirt".
Another girl came into the lobby and said,
"Brick, here is your undershirt".
I often wonder what those new girls thought about
crew behaviouron layovers!
Greetings from Brick
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