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NON STOP NIGHT AND DAY flight NY - Mcguire - Travis - Hickam - Clark, Philippines - Bangkok - India - Cairo - Frankfurt - McGuire - NY ...... and not getting off the plane, a DC-8-63F

N851F Douglas DC8-55F RESURGENCE
Lou flew as a navigator on the DC-8 and 10 from 1966 to 1971. He went to Christ Church, New Zeeland January 2005 to revisit the airfield where he flew Antarctic supply missions in 1960. Contact Lou via the ONA email and address listings!

Says Lou: - Here is a photo I took along the Rhine (Frankfurt Germany layover), when 7 of us went for a Sunday drive in a VW bus. Ted Thornton and his wife Lois, Maureen Hanna Perinchief, Marilyn White Doolittle, and I think Britt Herland and Anita.
California greetings from Lou!

Ron Preede and navigator Franzek

Wake Island runway

Bob Houlihan at layover in
Tachikawa, Japan

ONA VIETNAM COLLECTION

High Flying Supplemental
Extract from TIME MAGAZINE,
Jun. 30, 1967

SPACE DAILY
Goran Wrambeck and
Marilyn White in
Hawaii 1967!
- Did you get any leis?
- Yes, but both died.

ONA Bicentennial Celebration

N851F Douglas DC8-55F
c/n 45824 Gatwick 1967

Remember dancing under the stars on
the roof of the Athena Hilton?

The Pink Poodle and the Pink Palace!

I wonder who remembers the Waikiki Biltmore (now Hyatt Regency Waikiki) and the Pink Poodle ice cream parlor there?

The magic Royal Hawaiian (now Sheraton) before the shopping center and the twin towers? Eating at the Cock's Roost in the International Marketplace before all the little kiosks were there? The Surfers at the Canton Puka or Don Ho at Dukes in the IM? Chuck's Steakhouse on Lewers? Staying at the Reef on Lewers?

What happened to the Reef?

Ohana Reef Towers

Tiny Bubbles with Don Ho ......

Playing bridge on the beach for six days with the girls? Flying from Boston to Las Vegas to Oakland and on to Hawaii with ATS charters? Al Harrington - The Island Man- entertaining the troops on R&R in the park at Fort Derussy in the afternoon?

We brought the Lippizaner horses from Vienna to NY for their show at Madison Square Garden. The wonderful summer nights in Vienna?

Going to La Scala in Milan Italy for an opera? Laying on a stone beach in Palma de Mallorca? Flying from NY to Mcguire to Travis to Hickam to Clark, Phillipines to Bangkok to India to Cairo to Frankfurt to McGuire to NY and never getting off the plane - DC8-63F. 4 pilots, 2 engineers and 2 navigators and no passengers- they opened the hold and closed it and we went on to the next stop where they did the same thing - wonder what we were hauling? Lots and lots of wonderful memories and super life experiences!

Best from Lou

Waikiki Biltmore now Hyatt Regency

Three high-rise hotels opened in Waikiki already in i e 1955, the Princess Kaiulani, the Reef Hotel and the Waikiki Biltmore, which itself became a victim of progress and was imploded to make room for what is now the Hyatt Regency Waikiki. Another hotel -- Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village, which was not yet a high-rise -- opened its first 70 rooms. It was the year Honolulu hosted its biggest convention ever - 3,500 clergy and lay people at the 58th general convention of the Episcopal Church. That year, 108,000 tourists visited the islands, spending an estimated $56 million. Today, 2006, 177,756 visitors are in the state on an average day. They spend more than $11 billion a year.