Awesome! Takes a great storyteller to tell a great story well - Thanks for sharing, Hostman!!!!
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 ;)
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/
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.
Sounds like a great guy, I would have really liked to meet him. So sad to hear you have lost such a close friend.
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.
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 ...)
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.
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!
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.