I think we can accept that these movements were physically possible, and that it was a mistake to raise the issue of aeronautic technology.
But when did she arrive in Hawaii? What is the official timeline? Did she arrive there from Kenya, give birth, then leave for the “states” in a matter of days? The whole thing is hard to picture.
Cause we all know that a plane ride from Hawaii to Washington takes more than 15 days - even in 1961.
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Of course it didn’t, UNLESS she was coming home from Kenya and flew to Seattle or she was coming back from a hospital in Canada. This article is stupid, the information on this is far better and far more accurate here on FR where it has been investigated, debated for months.
No, it means the flight would be about 50% longer than a flight today. It would take about 9 1/2 hours at 300 knots average. Have you ever flow on a four prop bird with piston engines. I have, in a comparable C-97, a nice one that was once used by General LeMay. Leather seats, nice tables. But that was just a short hop from Vandenberg to March and back on the same day. I also flew longer flights on fairly nicely equiped twin radial Convair T-29s/C-131. OK City to Rome New York, (Tinker to Griffis) and then DC to Dayton to OK City on the way back. They issued beeswax ear plugs but even so the “thrumming” gets tiresome, and those were much short flights, and with no screaming baby to take care of either. Also no stewardess, just a crusy old crew chief, who would do his best to keep the engines “in sync”, to minimze the thrumming.