Legendary old-timers
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Cat how does it feel having yourself being referred to as a legendary oldtimer. A couple of years ago I was having a conversation with an old friend who works for System Safety and I was talking about the old guys, like I was some new guy. When referring to some of them I think I am the new guy! Anyway he chuckled and said "you are forgetting one thing, you are now one of the old guys" Reality kicked in and I made him buy his own beer after that!!!! I had never thought of it that way before, man it really sucks!!!
You Can Love An Airplane All You Want, But Remember, It Will Never Love You Back!
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Cat Driver
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CLguy....
.....I dunna know about this legendary "OLD " timer stuff.
When I finally get to old to fly I will be the first to know, until then I really don't think about age. What I want all you young'uns to do when I finally get shot by some jealous husband or boy friend is have a few laughs and remember I never had to kiss anyones ass to figure out how to stay alive flying all that stuff over all those years.
Flying is just common sense and always thinking far , far ahead of the airplane and then trying to fly as perfect as humanly possible ...especially near the edge of the flight envelope where true talent seperates the medicore from the pros....sometimes permantely.
Today I got some bad news, I have to return to Holland by the 17 th of March, shit I thought I would have some time home come spring....
...can you start a fund to get enough money together for me to get some psychiatric help?
I would like to quit aviation and get into marriage councelling.
Cat
.....I dunna know about this legendary "OLD " timer stuff.
When I finally get to old to fly I will be the first to know, until then I really don't think about age. What I want all you young'uns to do when I finally get shot by some jealous husband or boy friend is have a few laughs and remember I never had to kiss anyones ass to figure out how to stay alive flying all that stuff over all those years.
Flying is just common sense and always thinking far , far ahead of the airplane and then trying to fly as perfect as humanly possible ...especially near the edge of the flight envelope where true talent seperates the medicore from the pros....sometimes permantely.
Today I got some bad news, I have to return to Holland by the 17 th of March, shit I thought I would have some time home come spring....
...can you start a fund to get enough money together for me to get some psychiatric help?
I would like to quit aviation and get into marriage councelling.
Cat
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
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snaproll20
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Weldy Phipps.
I will always kick my ass for not writing a book about him before everyone who knows stories about him have passed on also.
I know that if his wings break, he will not need advice from St Pete on how to fix them, he'll just be looking around for something handy that will make them work.
Refering to him once as 'the luckiest man I ever met' (in view of all the risks he had taken), I saw him suck on his cigarette and then through a cloud of smoke, say "No, I just figure out the odds and then I go do it."
I will always kick my ass for not writing a book about him before everyone who knows stories about him have passed on also.
I know that if his wings break, he will not need advice from St Pete on how to fix them, he'll just be looking around for something handy that will make them work.
Refering to him once as 'the luckiest man I ever met' (in view of all the risks he had taken), I saw him suck on his cigarette and then through a cloud of smoke, say "No, I just figure out the odds and then I go do it."
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Cat Driver
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Last time I saw Weldy we were under the floor of his house in Resolute Bay thawing out frozen pipes with a f.ckin blow torch and drinking from a bottle of booze to keep from freezing and cracking our blocks...
Still can't figure out why we didn't set the house on fire....
...Must have been somewhere around 1971 or so....
Cat
Still can't figure out why we didn't set the house on fire....
...Must have been somewhere around 1971 or so....
Cat
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
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snaproll20
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yeah, Cat.
I always wondered if we had crossed tracks somewhere.
First time I saw Weldy, he had his head and a soldering gun buried inside a radio in the nosehangar office and I wondered what the janitor was doing fixing radios.
Was it you that picked me up off the floor of the Arctic Circle Club one night and gave me a vector home? If so, thanks!
I always wondered if we had crossed tracks somewhere.
First time I saw Weldy, he had his head and a soldering gun buried inside a radio in the nosehangar office and I wondered what the janitor was doing fixing radios.
Was it you that picked me up off the floor of the Arctic Circle Club one night and gave me a vector home? If so, thanks!
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Was that you that "Streaked " the ramp one night at forty below after to many triples in the Artic Circle Club??
Or did you steal Mary Rotten Crotch from me one night?
Cat
Or did you steal Mary Rotten Crotch from me one night?
Cat
The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
After over a half a century of flying no one ever died because of my decision not to fly.
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Pat Magie- He might kick my ass for mentioning his name in the "oldtimers" category but he is a legend to me,(and he could kick my ass...) Presently the owner of Honolulu's Island Seaplane Service, he's been around the biz for 40+ years now and if I remember correctly his times are about 30,000 on floats with another 6,000 on wheels. He's currently a Multi/Sea/IFR/ instructor as well a DFTE. About as smooth as they come and a helluva nice guy. Anybody looking to do a U.S. conversion or add a seaplane rating in paradise should look him up at http://www.islandseaplane.com
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