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Old 01-17-2011, 10:15 PM
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Flew on the real airplane (DC-6B) from Travis AFB, CA to Saigon, RVN in 1966.

39 hours in the air. Travis to Honolulu to Wake Island (still had a wrecked zero on the beach near the Japanese bunkers) to Clark AFB in Manila to Ton Son Nhut in Saigon. All on three engines - we would take off with 4 and about 2 hours into the flight 1 would die. Each stop they got all four running again but not for long. Saturn Airways contract carrier.

On the return a year later was on a 707 that made the flight in 17 hours in the air with one stop in Japan.

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