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I think the reality of the situation is that some people find learning by direct experience to be to their best interest. They can take on the day to day tasks of a field job without much guidance and moreover their instincts are reliable enough to carry them through situations and circumstances tha...

When does more education and experience hurt anyone? If you can pay to acquire what could be any kind of advantage why not take it....

anyone else out there...photos?...stories?

Anyone know anything about the early company operations in BC?

John was fantastic...like a second father actually. He was one of those rare individuals that gave and gave.
I grew up within their family and he was one of the first mentors I ever had...

Thanx Longjon... did you know him during that time?

An old family friend used to work up there, John Thies. Not sure if he worked for QCA though. HE went to become a Firecat pilot for Conair.

Where did Nigel Penn end up?

The canso that Frank's owned, C-FOWE is still around and is owned by none other than Connie Edwards who accompanied Frank's on the flight to England in his own PBY...a 6a if I remember correctly... Fowe is now N222FT and is currently airworthy in Texas. I have a recent picture of it somewhere that s...

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you can't hire a babysitter for what you guys are talking about...sad...

Thanks North Shore... about what year was that when you last heard he was there?

Thanks for the post!!!

I was reading an article entitled "Cansos over Canada" in which Stan's name was mentioned a few times. Also in that article was an anonymous pilot with a huge number of Cat hours ( Might be you .?)and Sonny Covin among others. The foundation of the article seems to be the sinking and subsequent reco...

Thanks .... no one was sure what was wrong with Granddad until the final month of his life and I have often wondered if he did know but decided that the dignity of business as usual was far better than suffering the nonsense of treatment... I don't know this but I wonder sometimes about it. He was p...

I think I probably have a different perspective on the Flying Fireman than anyone else could possible have. My Grandfather was the Chief Pilot and was caught in the middle of a lot of this stuff. He was the consummate pilot who certainly commanded the respect of the pilots that I met over the years....

who has more pics?

Time to rescue this from obscurity... I have been reading with interest the new FF thread and was thinking with the renewed interest that there might be some more contributions to this one.... just a thought... anyone?

There have been female pilots of PBY's since the war though how many would be hard to tell... I would be interested to know if PBY's were ferried around by woman like the other bombers and some fighters were.... I have read stories documenting women pilotsof B-24's, Lancs and P-39's but the PBY ferr...

My uncle was a fighter pilot and a lifer for CP/Canadian and had the occasion to fly an FF cat a time or two and told me it was one of the most challenging aircraft to fly... real Flying he called it.... I am not a pilot but I had a few opportunities to steer an old girl or two around the sky.. rema...

and yet another one that has been rumoured sold to the land down under.... this one being my favourite

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pbyregis ... 46644.html

this one can also be found on youtube firing up and taking off

Sorry for the hijack on the thread

and the other one that went to Australia

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pbyregis ... 46679.html