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Life was coming up roses for me that spring of 1965. I was successfully established as a freelance aviation journalist; a major aviation magazine had added me to its masthead as a contributing editor and my photos were being published. Life was
hectic; life was good.
Fatigued from all the activity, I was sleeping in late one Sunday morning when the phone woke me. It was Herman Miller calling. Herman was president and CEO of Bayside Electronics, a manufacturer of the Bayside 990, a VHF, 90 channel, portable radio for aircraft. The company was located in Stockton, California, where I lived at the time, and I’d written a story about it and its little radio for a magazine several months earlier. He told me he’d just ordered a turbocharged Piper Aztec in which he planned to island hop via Greenland and Iceland over to Europe to exhibit at several aviation trade shows and visit Bayside dealers. A typical businessman flight. Would I like to ride along?
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THE BLEAK BUT BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE OF GREENLAND. PETER HERR PHOTO