Captain Louise Robertson

“We completed it on the 31 July, and the first day of any sort of sunlight, which was very minimal, would be on the 1 August”

“The configuration took 24 hours, Robertson said, but takeoff was then delayed for another 12 hours”

“the runway ... had to be graded and groomed to make it smooth, a six-hour job”

“make a 3-km-long runway available for us”

“spent exactly one hour on the ground at Phoenix Airfield”