Ace of Spades.

Glad to see the guy got out OK. Being out over the ocean, out of sight of land, in a small aircraft is a pretty unique feeling…….even with modern avionics. It certainly allows one to appreciate the magnitude of what some of those pioneer interwar aviators achieved, in less reliable a/c, with little or (More usually) nothing in the way of communications or navaids.
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This guy had the C-130 to formate on him and the knowledge the heli’ was a few minutes away. One can only imagine how it must have felt for Earhart & Noonan failing to find the tiny dot of Howland Island in all the watery vastness of the Pacific….:(