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Sorry, it was April/MarchTHIS YEAR N/T

Posted by Tony on Sat Dec 15, 2001 04:48:54 PM

In reply top Good news for george, Paul, Elliott and the rest of us posted by Tony on Sat Dec 15, 2001 12:42:10 PM

: Get the Nav charts out, then cross-reference on scramble.n
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: This I believe , was last year.....
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: March 29: Singapore to Jakarta in Indonesia (516 miles)
: Maurice didn't care for the island of Sumatra, which seeme
: d to be under two feet of water. He kept thinking of havin
: g to ditch, flipping over, and drowning with his feet stil
: l dry. In the end, the only problem was that he lost radio
: contact with Jakarta and was overdue, and the Indonesians
: (not realizing that G-KIRK is always overdue) scrambled a
: search & rescue aircraft to look for him. Meanwhile, conv
: inced that her husband would indeed reach Australia, Kirst
: ie set out with their daughter Genevieve to meet him--with
: a two-year-old in tow, a flight almost as impressive as w
: hat Maurice was attempting.
: March 30: Jakarta to the island of Bali (530 miles)
: "They flew across the mountains of Java where, in bad weat
: her, M attempted to film volcanoes. Again, he ran out of d
: aylight as he headed towards Bali. As he continued over ju
: ngle M saw a graveyard of WW II aircraft.... He landed on
: what turned out to be a military airfield (again!). After
: a "standard grilling" /questioning? (he's now well practic
: ed and somewhat blase)M was taken by staff car to a very g
: ood hotel and given a conducted tour of the town by milita
: ry personnel."
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: Bad news is, 26,000 people hit this thread b4 i did -lol
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: http://www.danford.net/kirk.htm

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