tegucigalpa, honduras I think.

Yeah, that's Teguc, without doubt. Used to take the Herc in there with a load of ammo (we called them birth control pills) for the Hondurans. That's one of the hairiest airports I've ever been into. 2% downhill slope makes you land long unless you pick your spot on final. Bad optical illusion. There's a cliff at the departure end and if you run off the end, you're likely toast. TACA just recently creamed an A 321 in there. I wouldn't feel comfortable about riding a jet into that place.

Jetdrvr, Is there anywhere on earth that you have not landed!!?? Watching videos such as this makes me feel inadequate!

Yeah, there's a million of them. I worked the Horn, (Ethiopia, Djibouti & Somalia),South Africa, Angola, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Cabinda, Kenya and the Sudan in Africa and went into Lagos and Accra a few times, did the Azores, the Cape Verdes, Iceland, Mexico, all of South and Central America except Uruguay, Nicaragua and Guyana, most of the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea and some Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, Hong Kong, Antarctica, India, Guam, several spots in Canada including Gander a few times, Europe, the UK, Ireland, Turkey, Egypt and 95% of the states. Also most of the Bahamas. That covers a lot of territory, but not even half by far. I've probably forgotten a few.

Never flew mainland China, Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Russia, Korea, the Phillipines, the Baltic states and most of Northern Europe with the exception of Norway. Never did North Africa or the deep Middle East, with the exception of Sharjah. Missed a lot of places and will never do them. Too busted up and no flight physical and 66 yrs old next month and don't own a jet.

I was very lucky to fly for Southern Air Transport in its heyday. We had all sorts of contracts and ad hoc trips you could pick up, if you were tight with crew scheduling. Did a lot of DOD and State trips and embassy support and flew continuous routes for Logair (Air Force) and Quicktrans (Navy) before Clintoon broke up the military and destroyed the logistical organization.

I was born with the wanderlust. I lost the sight of my right eye in 1966, so that kept me out of the majors. Flying the non-skeds gives one much more variety in destinations, aside from the fact that, at one time, we were the world's largest commercial operator of the civilian Hercules, the L-382. This took us places that normal aviators, other than the bush pilots, rarely go. The unique capabilities of the Herc allowed us to fly famine and war relief in Africa, oil field support in Papua New Guinea, various military contracts, airdrop in Africa, a lot of dirt strip work on roads and bush strips in Sudan and other spots, and just generally go where the average airline pilot wouldn't be called on to go. Nobody ever got rich, but we did some of the most difficult flying imaginable and we lost a few ariplanes in the process.

I am very lucky to have been given the opportunity to visit the places I've been and I will always be eternally grateful to the few, very special men,those living and dead, who gave me the opportunity to prove myself.

And now I sit around here and wonder why I don't have a life!