to be delivered to Montreal, to be turned into an Executive plane for some company. We went from Blackbushe(UK), to Prestwick(Scotland),then to Keflavik (Iceland), the intention then was to go to Bluie 1,known locally as Narsarsuaq, on the southern part of Greenland, before proceeding on to Goosebay and then Montreal. 
Bluie1 was known to be a difficult place to get into,(in fact there was a tabletop model of the fiords and approach in the Ops briefing room at Keflavik), as one had first to find the right fiord to enter and fly up, with quite high walls either side, and then a left turn to find the airfield.!.
Anyway,when we set off from Keflavik the weather was quite good,but ,at the time ,we were at a high point in the sunspot cycle which seems to cause radio blackouts and Aurora Borealis.We set off from Keflavik and everything seemed ok to start with. When I tried getting Bluie1 weather broadcasts I could hear nothing so I contacted the weather ship that was stationed about halfway between Keflavik and Bluie1.( At that time there were a number of these weather ships dotted about the Atlantic sending their reports back to the Met office in the UK and also monitoring overflying air traffic.) The weather ship reported that they had no contact with Bluie1 either and could not give us any information about landing conditions there. By the time we had reached the southern tip of Greenland the radio signals had started to come back in and I heard Bluie1 calling us and telling us to return to Keflavik as Bluie1 was closed in due to bad weather.
We turned around to go back, but the pilot did not think that we had quite enough fuel to reach Keflavik. I then started to send the morse emergency signal XXX,saying that we had a problem. Although I could`nt contact Keflavik direct, at that time, an overflying U.S. Airforce plane got my message and relayed it to Keflavik. In the meantime the pilot decided to head for the Weather ship, where ,he hoped , he could get a good idea of his ground speed and determine whether we could make it, and if not ,then we would have to Ditch in the sea beside the Weather ship.
When we reached the Weather Ship the pilot had worked out that we could just about make it back to Keflavik, so we pressed on and I informed Keflavik of our progress. We finally reached Keflavik and landed with about 15 to 20 minutes of fuel left and found that the U.S. Airforce had rolled their AirSea Rescue plane out of the hanger and were preparing to come out to look for us if we hadn`t made it.! We made the complete trip OK a few days later.
