The Old Chap talks to the pilot
A 747 Cockpit, Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawai'i, United States - 20th November 1992
Nosher and the Old Man are off on a trip to New Zealand. On the way, we change at LA and fly to Honolulu for a couple of days' stop-over. Dad's old chum and ATCO colleague, "Fat" Barry, is on duty in air-traffic control at Manchester as we fly through Manchester control, so he has a word with the captain to mention that we're in the back. The captain duly sends a stewardess down to collect us, and we spend an hour or two on the flight-deck chatting - the co-pilot turns out to be from Nosher's home-town of Knutsford in Cheshire. As we do, we're "chasing the terminator" over Baffin and Hudson Bays and the ice-wastes of Canada - it's an amazing experience, like flying in an armchair over the earth, but the tragedy is that paranoid regulations now forbid anything like this ever happening again. Upon landing, we check out Honolulu, Waikiki beach, Pearl Harbor and North Shore, before heading off via Fiji to New Zealand.
next album: Ferry Landing, Whitianga, New Zealand - 23rd November 1992
previous album: Cider Making in Black and White, Stuston, Suffolk - 11th October 1992
The Old Chap looks back
The co-pilot does paperwork at 35,000 feet, heading west
The boys keep doing their paperwork
The view from the cockpit window at 35,000 feet
More paperwork
More flying in a 747 cockpit
The sun rises briefly as we chase the terminator
The ice floes of Canada as seen from the flightdeck at 35,000 feet
Blue ice wastes
A brief sunrise
The Old Chap leans over
Our Air New Zealand 747 at Honolulu airport
On O'ahu, there's excitement to see an actual banana tree in the wild
Banana trees
A spot of Hawaiian dancing
Polynesian dancing
A Hula dancer
A bit of a ukulele moment
The Hawaiian dance troupe and a couple of ukuleles
Some massive shakers
Some sort of ceremony with wooden staves
A night market in Honolulu
More random stalls in a Honolulu night market
A candle-making stall in the market
Waikiki beach in the early morning
Waikiki beach
We do all-you-can-eat breakfast on the beach
Some boys fish off the pier
An outrigger canoe
Traffic in downtown Honolulu
A giant Poinsettia-style Christmas tree
Some kind of curious intersection marking
Big Cadillac taxis at a posh hotel in Honolulu
A stretch limo in Honolulu
A tiny Honolulan police vehicle
An evening at the Shore Bird Beach Broiler
Some dude looks out from the USS Bowfin
Anti-aircraft gun on the Bowfin
The USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor
An anti-aircraft gun
A missile and a submarine
Torpedo tubes with a 'fish' in the hole
A pair of shiny torpoedoes
The submarine's diesel engine
The engine room
The forward torpedo tubes and torpedoes
Shiny copper tubes, like plumbing
A large torpedo
The USS Arizona memorial
The wreck of the USS Arizona lies just beneath the water
Part of a gun turret
The hire car, out and about on O'ahu
A plantation
Banana plantations
A waterfall
North Shore, Hawaii
Surfers and swimmers on North Shore
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The Old Chap talks to the pilot
The Old Chap talks to the pilot
The Old Chap looks back
The co-pilot does paperwork at 35,000 feet, heading west
The boys keep doing their paperwork
The view from the cockpit window at 35,000 feet
More paperwork
More flying in a 747 cockpit
The sun rises briefly as we chase the terminator
The ice floes of Canada as seen from the flightdeck at 35,000 feet
Blue ice wastes
A brief sunrise
The Old Chap leans over
Our Air New Zealand 747 at Honolulu airport
On O'ahu, there's excitement to see an actual banana tree in the wild
Banana trees
A spot of Hawaiian dancing
Polynesian dancing
A Hula dancer
A bit of a ukulele moment
The Hawaiian dance troupe and a couple of ukuleles
Some massive shakers
Some sort of ceremony with wooden staves
A night market in Honolulu
More random stalls in a Honolulu night market
A candle-making stall in the market
Waikiki beach in the early morning
Waikiki beach
We do all-you-can-eat breakfast on the beach
Some boys fish off the pier
An outrigger canoe
Traffic in downtown Honolulu
A giant Poinsettia-style Christmas tree
Some kind of curious intersection marking
Big Cadillac taxis at a posh hotel in Honolulu
A stretch limo in Honolulu
A tiny Honolulan police vehicle
An evening at the Shore Bird Beach Broiler
Some dude looks out from the USS Bowfin
Anti-aircraft gun on the Bowfin
The USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor
An anti-aircraft gun
A missile and a submarine
Torpedo tubes with a 'fish' in the hole
A pair of shiny torpoedoes
The submarine's diesel engine
The engine room
The forward torpedo tubes and torpedoes
Shiny copper tubes, like plumbing
A large torpedo
The USS Arizona memorial
The wreck of the USS Arizona lies just beneath the water
Part of a gun turret
The hire car, out and about on O'ahu
A plantation
Banana plantations
A waterfall
North Shore, Hawaii
Surfers and swimmers on North Shore