Take off from Majuro and the beginning of the 2000 mile flight to Honolulu, Hawaii.
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MASSA is the intersection on the airway between Majuro and Honolulu that marks crossing the International Date Line (thin green line).
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Aerial view of Johnston Atoll. In 2003 this former military base was completely deserted and only a few structures remain intact.
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For nearly 70 years, Johnston Atoll was under the control of the American military and during that time it was used as a naval refueling depot, an airbase for nuclear and biological weapons testing, for space recovery, as a secret missile base and as a chemical weapon and Agent Orange storage and disposal site.
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The large white building is the former Joint Operations Center.
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Aerial view of Sand Island and the former U.S. Coast Guard LORAN Station.
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This is the site where a Nuclear-armed Thor missile exploded and burned during the failed “Bluegill Prime” nuclear test on July 25, 1962.
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During WWII Johnston Atoll was used as a refueling base for submarines, and also as an aircraft refueling stop for American bombers transiting the Pacific Ocean, including the Boeing B-29 Enola Gay.
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The point just forward my left tip tank is where the Base Commander’s house was located.
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This is a picture of the Base Commanders house as it was in 1991, and it’s also where I celebrated my 36th birthday. From 1989 to 1992, I was assigned to the Defense Nuclear Agency as the Military Construction Program Manager for all the construction activities on Johnston Atoll. This overflight was a real trip down memory lane.
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I enjoyed a beautiful sunset and good weather for the remaining four-hour flight to Hawaii. Total flight time was just over fifteen hours and it was completed without a functioning autopilot. Tentatively planning to fly to the mainland on Thursday or Friday, depending on the weather and autopilot repair.