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Kind of an irrelevant question I suppose - but did they have to pay for the fuel at each stop? The way it's written the various bases gave them fuel and other things out of kindness.
I thought this was fiction until I read HN comments. Not sure I like this style for this sort of story.
Am I the only one wondering why this hasn't been made into a movie? Nostalgia for that time period and a compelling tale. Just needs a love interest plot line and I think it'd do pretty well.
I unexpectedly flew around the world once. Was supposed to do Canada-Germany-Dubai and then back again, but Lufthansa went on strike before my flight home so I ended up doing Canada-Germany-Dubai-China-Canada.
I've done San Francisco to Hong Kong to Bangalore, then back via Frankfurt to SFO, but that's not fully around the world, and neither was your route, because we didn't cross the equator or go 20,000 km (earth's circumference), just a Northern Hemisphere smaller circle. A route involving NYC and Aukland is the real thing, and considerably longer.
it's over 40,000 km
I am kinda sad that the Brazillian part in that story is how they forced them to stay because of Yellow Fever, but then they stole stuff from inside the plane... The saddest part of this, is that I am not even surprised :( As Brazillian I deal all the time with online distrust with Brazillians, and often when people explain why they distrust us, I can't fault them, there are even online games where Brazillians have t…
to be honest your post sounds a lot like some Egyptians I know who seem compelled to apologize for the endemic tourist scams, bribery/shakedowns/corruption, unethical taxi drivers, sexual harassment etc in Cairo.
Is that bad?
I am kinda sad that the Brazillian part in that story is how they forced them to stay because of Yellow Fever, but then they stole stuff from inside the plane... The saddest part of this, is that I am not even surprised :( As Brazillian I deal all the time with online distrust with Brazillians, and often when people explain why they distrust us, I can't fault them, there are even online games where Brazillians have t…
Nem todos pensam assim. Sou gringo, moro no rio e acho que o brasileiro é gente boa! TMJ
Kind of an irrelevant question I suppose - but did they have to pay for the fuel at each stop? The way it's written the various bases gave them fuel and other things out of kindness.
A banker in Australia advanced them $500 USD, which was enough to finance the rest of the journey.
I believe that would be about $9k USD adjusting for inflation, which feels oddly low given the length of the flight, but I suppose they wouldn't have needed to pay for fuel or supplies at PanAm stations.
Kind of an irrelevant question I suppose - but did they have to pay for the fuel at each stop? The way it's written the various bases gave them fuel and other things out of kindness.
Someone else linked another version of the story in another comment, which answers it: https://www.panam.org/pan-am-inspirations/634-saga-of-the-pa... A banker in Australia advanced them $500 USD, which was enough to finance the rest of the journey. I believe that would be about $9k USD adjusting for inflation, which feels oddly low given the length of the flight, but I suppose they wouldn't have needed to pay for fu…
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> I'm shocked that this story hasn't had significant discussion on HN. This "medium" site is unreadable to me. After waiting for the page elements slowly materialize, the only text that appears is just the first sentence of an article. Maybe other HN users with heavily adblocked browsers are equally unable to read this site?
Try replacing `medium.com` with `scribe.rip`: https://scribe.rip/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that... https://scribe.rip is an alternative frontend to Medium.