Franz Brucker ! What a guy ! He was so laid back they fitted a reclining seat in his aircraft. Funnily enough it was he who told me about the wager to land inside the storage tank and the recirculation issue (and crane) getting it out.
Whenever I needed cheering up I'd sneak out of the side gate to Mama Lulu's and sit on the nearest bench to Jim Sims; he was so pessimistic he could cheer up a corpse on the grounds that everyone was better off than him. He didn't change when he got to Eket, but of course he (and all of us) were normally eclipsed by the wisdom of Dink Smith.
Ah, those were the days etc........
By the way chuks, how do you get the umlaut over a letter ? I see you did it for Hans' name.