Member's  Life Stories

Member's Life Stories

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  • XC Triker commented on a page titled Remembering TWA
        GASP!  What idiot computed the...
  • Hostman created a page Remembering TWA
    You remember TWA (Trans World Airlines) don't you? Well I do, as one day at LAX everyone in the tower held their breath at the same time. Someone sent me a picture today of a B747 rotating on takeoff about 400' from the end of the...
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  • XC Triker commented on a page titled When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD
    My Friend Gilbert-  Inventor of the Roberts Breadbox Vario (very cool & classic) wrote this.   On Dec 26, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Gilbert wrote: Loved your story which brought back many memories, though I never actually...
  • Ken commented on a page titled When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD
    Yes I remember... I couldn't figure why you were so fascinated by that at the time. But they were indeed getting closer and closer. Our lesson was reinforced last fall at Oceano. We were itching to get that last morning flight in. There was...
  • XC Triker commented on a page titled When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD
    Thank you!  When I dropped silently out of the mist near those people with my big wings, it felt like a scene from batman--  all that was missing was the "wooooommppff!" sound. Hey Ken, remember when we were flying near...
  • XC Triker commented on a page titled PSA902 Gets Hijacked!
    Wow Hostman, that's neat it all came full circle.  You done good!
  • Hostman commented on a page titled PSA902 Gets Hijacked!
    Thanks for the link to the PSA website. I spent a long time wandering through it and remembering the good old days of PSA. I signed and made a comment on their "guest book". I made a comment about the Flight 902 hijacking and that I was...
  • Hostman commented on a page titled When I learned my lesson about Dew Point-- TIWTIWGTD
    Very interesting story David.   Drug our finger tips in the mist back and forth on the front side.  Wow, magical !!!   How cool is that? Yes, lessons learned about the dew point and temperature spread and I'ts...
  • Hostman started this great group- Member's Life Stories. I told him I wished I had some great stories like his (see them under this group heading), but didn't think I did.  I did have some TIWTIWGTD (There I Was Thought I Was Going...
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    • white eagle

      Nice story David

    • XC Triker

      I bet a lot of you have great Life Stories or TIWTIWGTD stories we could learn from (or at least be entertained by).  Or are only Monty and I going to share our "moments" for everyone else  ;)   (Come on guys & Gals open up.  You can change names and dates to protect the innocent, write in third person about "Walter" like Ole (@WingedGringo) does ;)

    • John Fetz

      I am a long time Friend of Dennis Tito (1st turist in space) he is sponsoring the Perlan Project,

      They want to soar to 90,000ft then 100,000 ft;

       http//wwwperlanproject.org/

      wwwperlanproject.org/

  • XC Triker uploaded the file Bill Hartwick
    Bill was near 65 when I met him. He was a Morro Bay local and was my mentor after I got off the HG training hill. Hang Gliding was good when I got in it, they often set new pilots up with a mentor. Without who's wisdom, many of would have died...
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    • XC Triker

      My friend, mentor, artist, humanitarian and pilot passed away Wednesday April 4th.  The world will deeply miss him.

      Bill was a major major influence on us, and in fact, he and his wife Nancy were our best couple at our wedding.

    • Ken

      Sounds like a great guy, I would have really liked to meet him. So sad to hear you have lost such a close friend.

    • white eagle

      xc sorry to hear you lost a friend  he looks like a great guy.ive lost quite a few people close to me. the way i see it people whom take the time to make an impression and love one another and put behind our silly differences and practice a little humble humanity will be are mentors again as we will also see are own mortality pass. life is a mystery better to spend it with the things that really count and who knows we might all meet again on some distant shore.where even the cool breeze sings a love filled song.

  • XC Triker commented on a page titled PSA902 Gets Hijacked!
    WOW!!!!  Intense.  As a kid I used to fly on PSA from San Diego to San Fransisco. I like the big smile painted on the nose.  When Henry & I landed at Brown Field (1 mile N of Tijuana border) we spent the next couple days at Karl's...
  • Hostman created a page PSA902 Gets Hijacked!
    During the early 70's there was a rash of commercial aircraft hijackings. The following is an experience that I had while working at LAX when working the mid shift (11pm-7am). LAX tower was notified by LA Center that PSA 902 had been...
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    • XC Triker

      WOW!!!!  Intense.  As a kid I used to fly on PSA from San Diego to San Fransisco. I like the big smile painted on the nose.  When Henry & I landed at Brown Field (1 mile N of Tijuana border) we spent the next couple days at Karl's house and visited the Ruben H. Fleet Air & Space museum at San Diego.  They had a very cool display of stewardess uniforms throughout history.  PSA had some great ones-- I was just a bit too young to appreciate them, but boy do I miss them now.

      More details and a couple photos of PSA and their stewardesses can be found HERE

       

      Hostman, I'm sure glad you started this "Member's Life Stories" topic and are adding to it!!

      I don't have any real intense trike flying stories-- though I have a few short hang gliding snippets  TIWTIWGTD ; )  

      (There I Was Thought I Was Going to Die ...)

    • Hostman

      Thanks for the link to the PSA website. I spent a long time wandering through it and remembering the good old days of PSA. I signed and made a comment on their "guest book". I made a comment about the Flight 902 hijacking and that I was working that night.

      I got an email today from the first officer of Flight 902. I won't go into what he said to me, but it brought me to tears knowing what we had done for the flight crew that night.

    • XC Triker

      Wow Hostman, that's neat it all came full circle.  You done good!

  • XC Triker commented on a page titled Member's Life Stories
    Hey, great story & group Hostman.  This looks like a group tath I'm going to want to read every day.  Which remiinds me, I've got to post to Rizzy's Joke of the Day group ...   AND dig back into my memory banks for a Story to put...
  • Admin created a page Member's Life Stories
    (if you've already read the intro jump down the page to ***) Hostman started this great group with this Story:          (I ported it over to the Group's Pages, so that everyone can continue their stories or...
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    • XC Triker

      Hey, great story & group Hostman.  This looks like a group tath I'm going to want to read every day.  Which remiinds me, I've got to post to Rizzy's Joke of the Day group ...   AND dig back into my memory banks for a Story to put here.  I love reading stuff like this, especially from friends and pilots!

    • Hostman

      I receivced an email from another PSA pilot that had read my post on PSA's website. He identified the mentioned pilot (now deceased) that made the "did you check the ovens" comment. He also commented that everyone at PSA knew who it was.