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Doctor, I've got no pulse!
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<blockquote data-quote="Gary" data-source="post: 183763" data-attributes="member: 288"><p>You betcha- why do you think I winked?? My great uncle got his licence at 16 in 1925. Retired from TWA in '72 with over 28,000 hours. His last job was training manager with TWA in Jeddah Saudi Arabia for 18 years from the 50's til the 70's. One of his responsibilities there in addition to training was to fly King Faisal when he went from his "summer residence" to his "winter one" because he didn't trust his own countrymen. During WW2 he was a navigator with Northwest on an Alaskan route. Before the war he had his own flight instruction at Ravenswood Airport in Chicago using two J-3 Cubs teaching primary,advanced and instrument. When I get home around Christmas I'll dig out a picture of when he was flying a NWA C47 which thru a cylinder with a full passenger load. They had to put it down in the desert,not one passenger was injured. My dad and him were not much different in age and treated him like a kid brother rather than a nephew.Dad always want to learn to fly but was told one crazy in the family was enough After he retired to San Diego he never set foot in a plane again. He was the one who called himself a glorified bus driver.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gary, post: 183763, member: 288"] You betcha- why do you think I winked?? My great uncle got his licence at 16 in 1925. Retired from TWA in '72 with over 28,000 hours. His last job was training manager with TWA in Jeddah Saudi Arabia for 18 years from the 50's til the 70's. One of his responsibilities there in addition to training was to fly King Faisal when he went from his "summer residence" to his "winter one" because he didn't trust his own countrymen. During WW2 he was a navigator with Northwest on an Alaskan route. Before the war he had his own flight instruction at Ravenswood Airport in Chicago using two J-3 Cubs teaching primary,advanced and instrument. When I get home around Christmas I'll dig out a picture of when he was flying a NWA C47 which thru a cylinder with a full passenger load. They had to put it down in the desert,not one passenger was injured. My dad and him were not much different in age and treated him like a kid brother rather than a nephew.Dad always want to learn to fly but was told one crazy in the family was enough After he retired to San Diego he never set foot in a plane again. He was the one who called himself a glorified bus driver. [/QUOTE]
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