Can’t find flights to this place. Airport code is MDY. Saw you flew on Hawaiian airlines. Can’t see they fly there on their website though. Any help with how to get there?
So glad you got to go there, especially in the summer when day flights are possible! The night birds are called Bonin Petrels or Nunulu in Hawaiian and were one of my favorite parts of living there last year
What was the purpose of this flight? Been to all the atolls and islands Continental Micronesia used to fly to, but never had the chance to visit any of the non-scheduled destinations. Breathtaking scenery and places most never even heard of.
@@jackdoe3889 no we actually flew in a good airplane with mechanics and parts, then the crew stuck there took our plane while we stayed overnight. Flew fixed plane out the next day.
I saw a video it said there was no one It’s so remote small and flat very hard to reach I wouldn’t expect humans to be there unlike Hawaii main islands
Spent many a day there in the early 1960's. Flying out of Barber Point with VR-21 flying R6D's (C-118). Every flight from Japen to Hawaii required a fuel stop at Midway which usually only lasted a few hours. Did spend the night once with a bad case of bad fuel and managed to spend some time in the wildest white hat club I ever visited. Got food poising at he chow hall and haven't eaten chicken since.
Nice nice nice. Do you know if get any Wheelers flying for Hawaiian still? I know Bill retired a long long time ago, but I heard his son(s) where flying too.
Back in the early 1990s a shipmate on my FFG-7 class frigate came down with pneumonia. We stopped at Midway on the way back from a WESTPAC to transfer him to the naval hospital there. Unfortunately he did not survive the infection.
i knew a guy who repaired the xray equipment at an airport in hawaii. He would sometimes talk about working on midway in the 80's and he sounded like he really enjoyed it. His job was some kind of electronic tech working for the civilian contractor that won the bid after the navy pulled out. A few years ago i ran across a video and i said to myself that sounds like Mike. Sure enough, it was. I had no idea he was such an electronics guru. His company set up a cell phone network on the island amongst other things to keep the airport electronics operational. If anyone is interested on seeing what it was like there when a private contractor managed the island, his video is titled: Midway Island - A Battle Lost To U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service
That's because this video is a mix of flight simulation and reality. The landing, taxi, and takeoff are flight simulation. The stuff in between is real.
Runway 6/24. I was stationed on Midway in 1975. Was too young to enjoy it. Inside those reefs are best Longusta in the world. Best diving, water so clear you can see the gusta on the bottom at 40 feet. After being there for about 15 months I couldnt get into the dirty water in Hawaii. :)
Cool video of Midway - wish it was open to the general public. You're right - a "once-in-a-lifetime" flight. You must've had the line seniority to get the flight on your schedule. Thanks for sharing. 🍻
Pretty sure it was a maintenance-only flight. I would guess the plane they flew into Midway had another crew onboard to fly it back to PHNL while this crew overnighted at Midway so they could fly the other plane back (which probably was in Midway due to an in-flight mechanical issue that forced to divert).
