[TTFlyer]

I think it was the Navy that called them the Gooney Bird,
after the Albatrosses of Midway Island.

[Openurmind]

“I think it was the Navy that called them the Gooney Bird,
after the Albatrosses of Midway Island.”

Thank you, I wasn’t sure of the source, but my Dad talked about hopping across the Atlantic in a Gooney Bird when he got stationed in England while in the air Force. Pit stop was Keflavik air base Iceland.