CF-URE Schweitzer glider air Cadet july 25, 1972
CF-HWH (hashish whiskey hashish) Pa28-140 July 1973 Won del Aviation in Montreal with the air cadets Thems the good old days...
First flight at 8 year old: A Tri-Pacer registered CF-LVM
I now own and restored one to its exact paint scheme and color: The only change is the call sign C-FKZE.
Soloed on Cherokee 140 CF-USW at Won-Del in Dec '69. WHW was around, but not HWH!
Giles
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Flying an aircraft and building a guitar are two things that are easy to do bad and difficult to do right
First flight: SeaBee, Detroit River from the family dock
First Dual: Fleet 80 Canuck CF-ENS 2 July 1952
First Solo: Fleet 80 Canuck 8 July 1952...Windsor Flying Club
First Glider : SGU-1-19 1957 Namao
First Jet: T-33 fam flight 4 Jan 1954 YPG
Most recent Flight: Today in the "Alley Cat"
And I've flowm many of the idents here...and knew Neal Loving and his beautiful Loving's Love.
First flight: SeaBee, Detroit River from the family dock
Same for me first flight was in a Sea Bee, lake Nipigon in 1947.
What year did you fly in the Sea Bee?
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The most difficult thing about flying is knowing when to say no.
After over a half a century of flying I can not remember even one trip that I refused to do that resulted in someone getting killed because of my decision not to fly.
Highflyinpilot wrote:Nice plane rudder bug, just beautiful.
Very nice. I have a thing for old rag wings. You don't see too many PA-22 restorations with the nose dragger configuration anymore. I've also never seen one with the vent window on the left side...
First plane I 'flew'? A battered Calgary Flying Club 172 (SXP... I think). $35 for a discovery flight while I was finishing up my AME training started a life-long addiction... First lesson and solo in another 172, GHYG from Carson Air.
My dad had a Cherokee 180, CF-VPO, and I flew it when I was about 2 years old... with the wing leveller on, of course! I also had the job of walking under the wing and untying it.
First airshow : 1947 over Belle Isle, Detroit, one of the wildest dog fights between USAAF and USN with RCAF Mustangs thrown in for good measure.
First on-site airshow: Windsor Flying Club featuring the first jets in Canada, the Blue Devils in their super fast DH Vampire Mk 3s...well it was 1948 and I was 13 years old!!!!!
First airplane ride was in my father's Chipmunk in 1976. FBNL, now an N number. She was at Lethbridge airshow this year.
First time at the controls - Harvard FVYF about 1981
First Solo - Fleet Canuck 2003 FEAX - homebuilt category with an 0-235. Canuck on steroids. My brother just sold her...she will be missed
Old Dog Flying wrote:First flight: SeaBee, Detroit River from the family dock
First Dual: Fleet 80 Canuck CF-ENS 2 July 1952
First Solo: Fleet 80 Canuck 8 July 1952...Windsor Flying Club
First Glider : SGU-1-19 1957 Namao
First Jet: T-33 fam flight 4 Jan 1954 YPG
Most recent Flight: Today in the "Alley Cat"
And I've flowm many of the idents here...and knew Neal Loving and his beautiful Loving's Love.
Barney
Small world Barney! I flew a canadian built Loving's Love too in 1973, CF-ERE and got to know Neal years later in his 80's.
Giles
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Flying an aircraft and building a guitar are two things that are easy to do bad and difficult to do right
rudderbug/Giles: I first met Neal at an airshow in Windsor about 1950. I was an Air Cadet guarding the Loving's Love and I thought that it was the sleekest aircraft ever built.
Laurentide Aviation's C FVLA a Cherokee 140 from Cedars Airport near Dorion PQ with Derek Mc Laughland (sp?), March 1971.
Then November 1973; G BAPM a Fuji FA200-160 from Exeter Flying Club... I could have learned on that aeroplane at the same price as the Cessna 150 (£11.64/hr dual) but I was your typical fool and thought I would finish my licence in the land of the spamcan, Canada.
Learn to fly in something you enjoy!
I subsequently taught aerobatics in that Fuji a few years later from Higgin Bill.
First plane I laid hands on was a DHC-1 Chipmunk in RCAF Golden Hawk colors in 2000.
It was totaled a few years later after an engine failure. Still my favorite airplane.
I also had the job of walking under the wing and untying it.
