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Mango Airways Adventure Notes
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Mango Airways Pilot Chris sits atop a Grumman Flying Boat. Our good friend "Barnacle Barry" flys this one and so often we end up just taking her over the horizon in search of some lake or riverbed to splash her down and see what sorts of people we can meet. No maps needed, no runways, no roads or fields, just a patch of sparkling waves, and once on the water, well lets just say that's the beginning of a story.
Photo by Dan Dominguez
©2001 Mango Airways
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The Mangos Get Wet
"You guys gotta stop that working stuff, it's too nice of a day to be out doing that stuff." What do you know, that voice was our good friend Barnacle Barry, a long time seaplane captain sneaking up behind us as we pulled the last disc break from Dreamcatcher. We put our wrenches and sockets down for a minute and put one hand over a squinting eye as we looked past Barry into the open blue sky of September. It didn't take long before Chris and I looked at each other, and just grinned ear to ear. We knew what we were in for, and put our tools down anyway.
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The Bergeson Chronicles
John Bergeson might turn a few wrenches from time to time, but what most people don't know is that John can make a lawnmower fly if you give him an afternoon and if you give him an evening, well, lets just say you usually end up watching the sun rise. Even though he maintains a fleet of DC-10's criscrossing seven miles above the jungles, Johns also the kinda guy you'd want around when you're up against the wall and the federales are a comin...
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Mountain Chicken
Few times you get to go to places like this and spend a few days. The mountain chicken's a coming...
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Walking on Water South of Treasure Cay
It's been spotted just south of Treasure Cay and Marsh Harbour. Some will tell you it doesn't exist, and some will tell you it's what makes the sun rise. It's known as the 'green room' and when it'll happen again- we don't bother asking...today we're headed across the seas to see it first hand, no time to wait...
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Rain Sleet or Snow, We Deliver
It's a long five minutes till midnight, the blizzard's been blowing frozen snow around for days and while the world stays inside tucked under blankets and hot chocolate, Mango pilots are making sure the mail gets delivered...It'll be four more hours before we're home, and doesn't look like this weather's going to let up...
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Travels with Pirate
Jimmy B.
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