Ernest
Wilson was a navigator with British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines after the war
on DC 6 aircraft. He has passed on a number of stories to us and this one
caught our fancy -
A
dear 80 year old lady was flying for the first time, and in the middle of the
night was worried that we might get lost as we could not see where we were
going. Neville was the Captain and he sat beside her and explained how we find
our way.
“You
see that flashing green light on the wingtip outside the window; that is on our
starboard side, and on the other side there is a flashing red light on the port
side. So long as those lights are flashing, we know that we are right on
course.”
She
complimented Neville in the morning because she had watched the flashing light
during the night and we had been on course all the time.
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