Sixty Years of Fun

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:22 pm

Sixty years ago today I took my first flying lesson in a Fleet Canuck..this in full scale

And today I had more fun in this..

Time really flies when you are having fun.

Barney

JMACK · Post by **JMACK** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:29 pm

Old Dog Flying wrote:Sixty years ago today I took my first flying lesson in a Fleet Canuck..this in full scale

And today I had more fun in this..

Time really flies when you are having fun.

Barney

Very NICE.............Happy Anniversary Barney!

Jim

RudderWhat · Post by **RudderWhat** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:51 pm

Congratulations!

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:57 pm

Congrats Barney!

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:15 pm

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:42 pm

Thanks Guys ...it has been a blast..but then I didn't have to bust my ass like some of you did hauling garbage for a living. I only had students trying to kill me!

Barney

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:40 am

Congrats Barney!
You were happy and lucky to live during the golden age of flying in Canada.
Actually, it was the golden age for everything.
Sixty years of flying is a feat by any standard. I am sure that you have seen and experienced more than any of us can dream about. I am sure all here wish to hear more stories, more experiences from that lifetime of flying.
Keep flying!
Keep writing.
expat

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:06 pm

Agreed, more happy stories.

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:48 pm

way to go barney!!

Prairie Chicken · Post by **Prairie Chicken** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:28 pm

Congratulations Barney on your diamond anniversary with aviation! I'm glad your days at the RFC didn't scare you off. Keep on flyin'.

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:00 pm

Thanks PC...that was quite an experience all right but in the end I came out on top.

Barney

1000 HP · Post by **1000 HP** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:14 pm

Congrats Barney! That's awesome! Something for me to shoot for just holding a medical for that long. Time to relook at the personal health situation and pass on the donuts

This desk job is killing me. I'll hit 28 years since my first flying lesson and 36 years since my first "co-pilot" flight in a Beech Sundowner (Birthday gift from an old controller named Ron Greenwood)

Keep on Flyin'

sidestick stirrer · Post by **sidestick stirrer** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:12 pm

Sixty years of flying...
Did you start late or something?
I'm only asking as you don't look a day over a hundred...

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:48 am

Congratulations on joining a pretty exclusive club!

My father soloed in a T-6 on July 27, 1951 and is still flying. It's
not always easy to keep your medical valid for that long.

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:51 am

Sidestick....Thanks Snowflake 6..

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:10 am

I am a late commer to aviation here, I didn't start my training until June 23 1953....like Barney I soloed in a Fleet Canuck CF-EBE.....same paint job....blue and yellow.

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:21 pm

Hi ...I flew EBE at Toronto Island in 1957 (Wong Way Airfarce)

Barney

fleetcanuck · Post by **fleetcanuck** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:46 pm

Very well done Barney. You learned on a wonderful trainer when they were almost brand new and you obviously learned well to still be flying sixty years on.

As it said in the before landing checklist at the Edmonton Flying Club, last item:

Happy landings,
Peter

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:54 am

Congratulations on your milestone old dog flying! Whatever you`ve been doing for the past 60 yrs, just keep doing it! All the best! Cheers!! FTB

nosewheeel · Post by **nosewheeel** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:16 am

Congratulations ! A friend sent me this and I found it so true !

Once the wings go on, they never come off whether they can be seen or not. It fuses to the soul through adversity, fear and adrenaline, and no one who has ever worn them with pride, integrity and guts can ever sleep through the 'call of the wild' that wafts through bedroom windows in the deep of the night.
When a good flyer leaves the 'job' and retires, many are jealous, some are pleased and yet others, who may have already retired, wonder. We wonder if he knows what he is leaving behind, because we already know. We know, for example, that after a lifetime of camaraderie that few experience, it will remain as a longing for those past times. We know in the world of flying, there is a fellowship which lasts long after the flight suits are hung up in the back of the closet. We know even if he throws them away, they will be on him with every step and breath that remains in his life. We also know how the very bearing of the man speaks of what he was and in his heart still is.
Because we flew, we envy no man on earth.

-Author Unknown

Old Dog Flying · Post by **Old Dog Flying** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:46 am

Nosewheel: Thanks very much for adding that..how true! Aviation is really a very large family that, no matter how many times we may disagree with the opinions of the members of the family, we still have time to laugh at our selves over a beer...or two ...

Barney

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