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INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA CREW WEBRING

Air Bahama F/E ANDY BOER - SON LARRY BOER now PILOT with UPS

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Andy in the cockpit
Dedicated to the Air
Bahama / ONA crew

Anne and Andy Boer in 2002

The Blue Vista Club, now condominiums

Atlantis, Paradise Island

Tour Lyford Key

Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort
(Balmoral Club)

Historic Air Bahama crew
layover hotels-Coral Harbour

Air Bahama timetable Nov 1974

Andy Boer´s son Larry is a pilot with UPS since many
years back. Larry flew with Air Jamaica in the seventies.
Larry sees Emmett Hays, ex-IAB F/O and Captain
in SFO when he flies to OAK. Emmett is still
flying a twin!

Bahamas - U S A - Luxembourg

Larry has flown with many who thereafter flew
for ONA, such as Dennis O´Connor, Jack Gold,
(Milt Marshall RIP) and maybe Paul Stark,
then with Seaboard, where Larry also put in
some coal. Larry is great friends with Al
Wintermyer who recently was one of the many
crew attending the glorious ONA Ft Lauderdale
Crew Reunion on March 10.

Air Bahama airplane N8630 now flying for UPS
Pix of N8630 (our N801UPS) on the ramp in SDF 
(StanDiFord Field, Louisville, KY,USA). 






The picture of the F/E panel shows the DYMO 
(brand of label maker) label at the top of the 
electrical panel that was put on as a joke by 
my Dad and Nino the maintenance guy. 


Nino to the right, who many 
of us remember from JFK

After the incident I wrote about where they 
detached the engineer's panel IN FLIGHT to 
retrieve a CSD temp guage cannon-plug and 
kicked all 4 generators off the line, 
disengaging the autopilot, de-powering the 
pressurization to full descend and kicking 
off the galley power. So after being put in 
the mid-70s that sticker is still on in 2003! 




The cockpit pictures weren't good enough as I 
want to get them when all the EFIS 
(Electronic Flight information System) screens 
are powered up. But you can see how highly 
modified the engineer's panel is since they 
air-conditioning was changed to air-cycle 
machines (packs). I'll bet you have a lot of 
memories of being in that airplane and it being 
toaster hot. Not anymore. It will freeze you 
out even sitting on the ground and even with 
252 people. On humid days, you can set it so 
cold the gasper outlets will toss little tiny 
ice pellets out as the water separator gets 
overloaded. UPS had a fleet of 50 DC-8s but 
we've only recently started parking some in 
the desert for disposal. Only two DC-8-71s so 
far but more will be going as we get more and 
more MD-11s and A-300 Airbuses.