164 Cam Hawley and the Antarctic Staggerwing

A rambling, meandering episode full of happenstance reminiscences that barely ties in to the Antarctic history thread of this series through an encounter with Antarctic novel author Evelyn and an interview with Cam Hawley about the restoration of the Beech Staggerwing carried south by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition. Cam spoke to me in a hangar at Wanaka airport during the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow and the ambient sounds of Harvards and Strikemasters going about their skybound business outside offers a neat backdrop to our dialogue. Photographs of the Antarctica connected airframes I encountered during my whirlwind South Island visit at the Wordpress site. And some of the model Whirlwind Brian built and the model Hughes 500 I built during our evenings at his place. I don't often travel other than for work or family duties, so I loved every second of my time in Brian's company. No-one relying on me for data, consumables, or maritime services. No-one dying of cancer. A week well spent on every front.

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164 Cam Hawley and the Antarctic Staggerwing is an episode from Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica by Matthew Alan McArthur.

This episode is 31:03 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2026.

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