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Karitane, New Zealand Twelve hundred miles across the Tasman Sea from Tasmania is the coastal town of Karitane, on South Island, New Zealand. Established as a whaling station in …
Tasmania, Australia As the water opens up ahead of us, and the landmasses grow fewer and further between, the distances between our destinations become ever longer. From Sulawesi in …
FRESH START The magnetos had returned with the dope-resisting paint, and one morning I set about fixing and timing them. I had not had much to do with motors, …
The doping was not the short job we had expected. We seldom had two hours in the morning or afternoon warm enough for it, and as we had to …
I set to work and made up a list of the material and replacements I should need. This made fourteen pages. Then began a strange, but strangely happy period …
He offered to have the seaplane launched for me, but I declined, mounted the cowling, and held the crane hook under the sling wires myself. The seaplane was swung …
The Dutch Government refused me permission to fly over New Guinea unless I guaranteed to repay any expenses incurred in looking for me. I imagined myself working for the …
