#ODYSSEY SLIPWAYS STAR TREK FREE#

His copilot Mike Terryl a relative youngster, is from the U.S.A. The Catalina crew consisted of Captain Brian McCook, a 67 year old Australian, veteran flying-boat pilot who knows the Catalina better than anyone.

#ODYSSEY SLIPWAYS STAR TREK FREE#

On board was Ben van de Burg, tv-presentor for the Dutch 'Veronica Broadcasting', with him was TV-director Frank Thomasse cameraman, Richard Nobel, sound engineer Joep van Drunen, producer Yvonne Belonje and still photographer Frans Lemmens.Īlso onboard were the three lucky winners of a free flight onboard the Catalina. Staff members, Journalists, the lucky participants, family and friends, gathered to witness the departure of the Catalina. The smartly painted Catalina, with its deep red engine nacelles and blue and red stripes, stood proudly on the ramp at Schiphol-East Airport, decorated two large Logo's, portraying a Catalina in Flight, with the words 'Peter Stuyvesant Travel Odyssey' - Discover the World 1993.Īt about ten o'clock in the morning, a large crowd assembled in the departure lounge at Schiphol EastĪmsterdam airport. Exotic places and mythical regions as diverse as the Sahara desert, Amazonian Jungle Caribbean Islands and Greenland were on its itinerary.Ī journey of some 26000 km flown by a 50 year old amphibian in about 160 flight hours. It marked the start of a unique event, which would take a PBY-5A Catalina to four differentĬontinents in search of the 'ultimate adventure'. Monday was an important day for Peter Stuyvesant Travel a Dutch travel agency. 'Peter Stuyvesant Travel Odyssey' - Discover the world 1993

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