Welcome aboard!
Tell us more about yourself. Bet you like flying, I surely do.
I started flying in 1958. I was in the service, a corporal serving among the few remaining cavalry. Yes, calvary. One day I saw a sign for a “flying sergeant” programme. I didn’t know the first thing about aeroplanes but I liked the idea of being a sergeant. Later I was sentenanced to the P38 and eventually escaped to the F-86, moving up the NCO ranks as a maintenance release pilot finally to a commission and guns that worked.
Following the service I helped to develop air freight routes between south africa and south america including the transition to jets. Along the way I spent some time in the States with a short lived aeroplane export company and an even shorter lived 2nd marriage.
Coming home I caught on with a small freight airline and never really left, I still own the certificate and have a few B200's leased out, the only model in our fleet that I cared to keep. About that same time I married the woman I should have started out with.
Along the way I accumulated and restored some toy aeroplanes, a couple of T-6's, an F-86, a mig 15, a BT13, some others of lesser completion, but I rarely fly any of them except one of the T-6 and mostly fly only my trusty aztec. Along with the aztec at my farm, my wife has a cessna 120 and a son-in-law a Decathlon. One of my sons failed the career test and followed me into aviation, he flies for Lufthansa. All of my other children took up respectable professions.
