Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes, we just passed it.
In those trees
In those trees, right.
Where the forestry office is now
That’s right.
Oh. Did you ever fly in and out of there
Yes, it was on Cockett Airline.
Cockett, oh. Were they the small little single or twin engines
Small. Yes, single engine, and at times twin engines.
Wow!
And they had twin engines, yes. And then Cockett Airlines did have an accident after a
while.
Out here or elsewhere
No, elsewhere.
It was quite interesting talking with Jess Hannah about his first flight in around ‘33 over to
here also on a…
Yes.
You know, he says, those old airplanes, just like, “You lucky if you get home [chuckles]!”
Uh-hmm. That’s right.
Look at how beautiful the pu‘u are, yes
Yes.
That’s Nohonaohae nui, way in front of us there.
Yes, that’s right.
You know on these pu‘u, like this, and I think this flat one… [thinking] I think, is that one
Pu‘u Heihei
Yes, yes.
The lower one there
Yes. We used to call that over here, Polo Field.
Polo Field, for real.
Polo Field. I believe they used to train the polo horses. The Parker Ranch was raising
polo horses.
In this section between Holoholokü and Heihei
Yes.
Ahh. I read that A.W. Carter had liked the polo horses.
That hill there is interesting, you go in the middle, there’s a crater in there.
Yes.
Most of the hills get crater in them.
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:465