Informed by IndifferenceThe longest flight I ever made--the metaphysical distance between points, not the hours aloft--was from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. It was aboard a four-engine, propeller-driven cargo plane called a C-130, flown by the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It took eight hours to broach the Pacific with two dozen passengers and a full load of freight. | Whole Earth. Spring2000, Issue 100, p50. 3p | MasterFILE Complete (EBSCO) (Library Database)