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After some back and forth with a couple of long-time friends from good ol’ Frontier Airlines I got into recalling some things about a few of some really superb ol’ pilots. I hope you enjoy a quick trip back in time… When FAL first acquired the 737’s I had a.
January 19-21… We had a wonderful reunion with Dr. Ricardo Castañeda Santo and his family. We finally met the Santo’s oldest son, Said. It was Said who made it possible for the eight of us to survive a horrific abduction a half-hour east of Mazatlan, Mexico just a year.
I’ve been busy t’day visiting back n’ forth with long-time aviation pal, Captain Ernie Lingren. We share a lot of common interests having joined the original Frontier Airlines within a few months of one-another. The subject of the mystique that shrouded the venerable North American P-51 ‘Mustang’ came up. This.
OK, I’m new at this. So, cut me some slack! I switched to ServMask and got rid of GoDaddy. I now refer to GoDaddy as “GoBadly!” What a complete sham! They were all glitz and bullshit! They were incompetent! They were unable to solve the simplest of issues. Yani Illev.
Captain Jack Bering Schade 1921 – 2014 “How come I’m so lucky?” By Billy Walker The title works for most of us. However, this quote happens to come from a special mentor of mine and my first sponsor in my quest to become a member of a special fraternity of.
Greetings! FIRST, an apology! I am trying to learn how to put a feature within where you can book-mark and go back to the spot you where you quit reading. So far this has eluded me, but I’m persistent. In this “page” you’ll see weekly (sometimes daily) postings. At.
Writing my family’s story, from my perspective, I realized that I jumped ahead some. For sure I should have put something about what my grandparents meant to me as well as their influence which was considerable and atavistic. If you have already read Part One/Two/Three you know that I was.
If you enjoy these stories, you may wonder where my interest in aviation came from. In the beginning, it was my parents, W. Dillard “Pic” Walker and Frances Emily Walker. I was literally born into an aviation family. Moreover, I was almost born in an airplane! Writing.
SARATOGA to SCOTTSDALE arriving November 5, 1958… After Jerry Donelan convinced me to move to Arizona the quid pro quo was that our move would be following the Panther’s football season. As I mentioned in Part One, the PVHS football team went from worst to first from my freshman year to my senior year..