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My Life in SAS from 1947 to 1980 |
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I joined the Danish Airline DDL at the end of the war. Started flying the DC.3 aircraft around Europe. Mostly around Germany as the German Airline was not yet established
Flights to London and Paris took three to four hours. After a ground stop of one hour it was back to Kastrup. So seven to eight hours flight per day at below 10,000 feet was the normal and out again next day.
Navigation by map reading and the radio officer getting fixes. Landing in poor weather by the use of Radio Range Signals, Radio Beacon NDB's or the Standard Beam Approach SBA system as it was called. |
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The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Airlines joined forces first as an Overseas Section OSAS flying to USA and South America.I moved to Stockholm 1951 to fly the DC.6 between Stockholm, Copenhagen, Prestwick, Gander and New York.
SAS was formed and I moved back to Copenhagen as Deputy Chief Pilot in 1952.
I flew as Captain and instructor on the DC.3,; DC.4 and DC.6. |
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Here in the cockpit of a DC.7C |
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I flew King Frederik IX of Denmark to Iceland and Greenland in 1952. |
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In February 1957 I flew the first commercial flight across the Geographical North Pole from Tokyo via Anchorage to Copenhagen |
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My crew on the first Polar Flight.
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His Royal Highness Prince Makasa and the Princess were honoured guests on the inaugural flight. Here I am briefing them together with Per Hanson, the Board Chairman of SAS, before our departure from the Haneda Airport in Tokyo on February 24th 1957. |
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The front page of the newspaper in Anchorage our refuelling stop before crossing the Northpole.
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SAS has erected a "Rune Stone" in the Habiyi Park opposite the Imperial Hotel Tokyo to commemorate the First Polar Flight. |
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In 1957 I participated in an evaluation team for a new aircraft for SAS. It was agreed to buy the SE.210 under development at Toulouse.SAS ordered 25 aircraft and I was put in charge of its introduction starting with first delivery in 1959. |
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The crew and Management at delivery of the first Se210. |
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I flew the inaugural flight of the SE 210 from Stockholm to Beirute via Copenhagen, Dusseldorf Athens. Here we are at Dusseldorf . We were establoshing a new speed record for each leg of the flight. But we were delayed due to enthusiastic receptions at each airport by media etc. |
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After completing the introduction of the Caravelle I needed a rest and took a two years out stationing in Santiago de Chile. Here we flew DC.7C aircraft over Andes Mountains to Buenos Aires on to Montevideo then to St Paulo and on to Rio where another crew took over the flight back to Scandinavia. We returned to Chile two days later on the next south bound flight over the same route. |
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After return to Scandinavia in 1960 I converted to the newly arrive CV990 Coronado and was stationed in Thailand to fly for Thai International as the CV 990 was their first jet aircraft.. |
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On return from Thailand I was appointed Manager of Flight Procedures and converted to the DC 8. My office was at Bromma Airport SAS Head Office. I commuted back and forth to Denmark where I had bought a house and the children went to school.
I was appointed as Deputy Dir of Flight Operations and converted to the DC 10 aircraft. |
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In 1980 I was asked to take up the position as Regional Technical Director of the IATA Asia/Pacific Region with office in Bangkok.
I accepted the position and retired from SAS having reached the position as Deputy Director of Flight Operations, flown 21,000 hours over most parts of the world without any serious incident or accident, and looked forward to new challenges. |
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