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Old 19th Sep 2009, 06:33
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Can't remember the actual dates or the number of stops as I don't have my logbook with me at time of writing, but in the early sixties as a MEL based TAA F27 F/O I operated several Adelaide - Darwin multi sector flights.

Following an overnight Darwin we then did a Darwin - Dili (Timor) - Darwin, and another overnight before returning to Adelaide via the same northbound sectors.

The reward for this arduous three days was a night stop at the Pier Hotel in ADL and pax home to Melbourne on the following morning's Electra flight, usually lugging a couple of cases of Yalumba wines that had been delivered to the ADL crew room whilst we were up north. Those were the days !
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