Up Up and Away
Here is an image of Owen Stuart in Singapore with my first two passengers after getting my private pilots licence through the Royal Singapore Aero Club. I was a signalman on Pukaki at the time, this photo would have been taken around Dec 1959 or Jan 60. Does anyone recognised these two chaps in uniform. They would have been junior seaman, or perhaps ordinary seamen at the time. The Captain of Pukaki was Cdr Williams, the Nav Officer was Paddy Bourke, and the Gunnery Officer was Humber Hulme, both of whom also came for sightseeing flights over Singapore, much to the annoyance of Cdr Williams who did not like fraternisation between the upper and lower deck.