PAN AM series 15,  HOW TO GET ANTS OUT OF HER PANTS, by Captain Bill Travis

Easy-----Take her pants off----We did.

PROLOGUE

In the late 1960's, while flying for Pan Am, we flew soldiers from Vietnam to exotic places for R & R. That means Rest & Relaxation, but was affectionately called Rape and Rampage.

We took them to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, and Sidney.

That was long before my wife and I moved to Arizona in 2004 where I began to help buyers find homes for sale in Val Vista Lakes in Gilbert AZ

FLIGHTS OUT AND RETURN

On the flights out, the GI's were wide awake; not sleeping the entire trip.

 

 

When we picked them up to return, they were exhausted, and slept all the way to Vietnam.

They had a well deserved break from the war to enjoy themselves, and we were proud to be a part of helping them enjoy a vacation.

 

Many of them never returned home.

 

 

 

DARWIN

The flight to Sidney exceeded the maximum duty day for pilots so we had to change crews and layover at Darwin, on the northern tip of Australia.

 

We learned of a swimming hole with a vine swing in a creek 30 minutes from our hotel.

Being adventurous types we rented several Mini Mokes (small jeep looking car) and drove to the creek for swimming and picnicking.

It was fun swinging off the hill on the vine and dropping into the water. We felt like teenagers again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE BRA

When this flight attendant (I'll call her Lucky") swung on the vine the first time, her bra broke before getting to the drop point.

Being gentlemen that all pilots are, we volunteered to swim out to help her fix it.

But she managed to take care of the problem herself.

 

 

 

 

ANTS

On the way to the main road from the creek there were huge ant mounds that housed huge ants. Lucky decided to have her picture taken near the mounds, so she gave her camera to someone and ran over to pose.

The ants didn't like this intrusion and all of a sudden Lucky began screaming and slapping her legs because the ants had climbed up her jeans and were biting.

She was in real pain.

One brave Pan Am pilot grabbed her under the arms, and another picked her up by the feet, risking getting ants on themselves, and carried her from the mound.

Then we took her pants off so she could get all the ants off her body.

SWIM SUITS

Because there was no place to change clothes at the swimming hole, we wore our swim suits under our clothes.

We swam first, then had our picnic, during which time our suit would dry. Then we put our clothes on top of the swim suits.

 

So Lucky wasn't naked, and fortunately the ants hadn't gotten under the swim suit.

 

 

If You See a Huge Ant Mound

**** DO NOT GO NEAR IT ****

If you do, be sure someone is around who is willing to risk getting ants in their pants in order to get the ants out of your pants.

I'm in the process of writing a book, half of which will be about the non-aviation phase, and the rest will be about the aviation phase of my life, and I'll tell as many stories as I can recall that I hope people will find interesting, and will give younger generations more insight into Pan Am the once greatest airline in the world.

I'm requesting that if anyone wishes to make any suggestions about what should be in the Pan Am section, or in any other section, that can make the book more interesting, I'm open to all suggestions.

 

For information or to offer suggestions, send an email to Pan Am Captain Bill Travis

 

My goal is to have the book completed in ebook form by the end of July 2013.

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