Thanks! E-3.
One thing about long flights…I used to get these really bad headaches. Most of our missions were 8-12 hours. Still fairly long. I thought those headaches were from the radar emissions, etc. ha! I went to the flight surgeon. He asked me. “You drink coffee on those flights?” Yes “You drink water on those flights?” No. “Ahhh, you are getting dehydrated. Drink a lot of water.”.That fixed it.
I don’t know if it still is or not but that used to be the longest flight in the world for a while.
Back in 1981,12 hours Honolulu to Newark.We went Honolulu to Oakland to Baltimore to Newark.
Well, my first marriage lasted 17 years from Round One…
Oh sorry, you said longest FLIGHT!
My longest was Philadelphia to Puerto Princessa, Philippines. Phila. to San Fransisco (6hrs) to Honolulu (5hrs) to Manila (8hrs) to Puerto Princessa (2hrs). Then right onto a boat sailing overnight to Tubbataha reef in the middle of the Sulu Sea. At least one could sleep on the boat…
Don
Longest for me and my wife was 38 hours of travel time. Sacramento to Minneapolis, then to Amsterdam. From Amsterdam then on to Almaty, Kazakhstan. Lots of resetting my watch…I have no idea how many time-zones were crossed but I know I never want to go through THAT again.
We then lived in Kazakhstan for two months, then repeated the whole process coming home. There’s no place like home…
Matt
Kadena, Okinawa to San Francisco
I did fly San Francisco New Delhi over a 23 hour period. But that included a 12 hour lay over in Germany due to fog in India.
Bill
Fort Smith, Arkansas to Chicago in a little Convair prop something-or-other, with a load of live chickens and puppies in the cargo hold below! Hot, humid, noisy- fortunately not smelly!
Good story that.
We used to fly San Francisco- Santa Barbara CA on passes on weekends to see my moms parents.
That’s maybe 6 hours by car.
San Francisco, follow Route 101 to Salinas, follow Route 1 to Monterey, follow 68 back to Salinas without landing and then 101 down to King City, then down to Paso Robles, then 42 over to the coast without landing at Lompoc unless there were servicemen from Vandenburg in the terminal, then on the coast following the Southern Pacific tracks around Point Arguello and down into Santa Barbara.
On a light night return, they’d skip going inland to PR and follow the coast up to Monterey. If all was right, we’d fly over Hearst Castle at San Simeon at 10,000 feet at sunset.
Convair 440 IIRC.
Holy Cow, Josiah!! You’re 6’8", and you ain’t in the NBA!!!
From Little Rock , Arkansas To Chicago ( fuel ) Then to Denver ( fuel ) and on to San Francisco . Just about , with stop-overs 16 hours .