AIR COMMODORE GORDON STEEGE DSO DFC
As told to Bill Brown
NEW TO THE SEAGULL flying boats, I first took a couple of local flights around the Port Moresby area.
These included the hairy experience of flying Commander Hunt, who headed a small naval surveying detachment, delivering some mail to Yule Island at low level over offshore reefs in a strong south-easterly, when the Seagull appeared to be going as fast sideways as forward.
Then my CO, ‘Alex’ Alexander, asked if I would like to take the Seagull down to Samarai.
I jumped at this, and with a Sergeant Navigator, Wireless Operator and Engineer Fitter we had an enjoyable straight and level flight on a beautiful day, perhaps three hours at 90 knots, along the coast to Samarai.
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