pilotyip
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- Nov 26, 2001
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Merry Christmas to all. I want to thank everyone here for the years of Aviaiton interaction. I am still living the dream of a five-year-old who wanted to be a pilot. I remember the days sitting in the Howard Johnson’s in Belleville, MI in the mid 60’s. It was a restaurant near KYIP; I listened to the Zantop pilots talking about their adventures flying the C-46 all over North America. Tales of run away Curtis Electric Props, followed by "I wouldn’t give you a plug nickel for a Curtis Electric prop, they should put Ham Stans on every bird". Stories of Turkeys being ejected all over northern Ohio due to icing conditions, and stories about guys who had bought the farm. Talk about the DC-6’s coming in pretty soon, now there was a real airplane, it had 2800's and Ham Stans, a lot better bird than the 7 with those dam 3350’s. I wanted to be in that group of people who were pilots and just talked about airplanes and flying. In a way FI has been that group of pilots at Howard Johnson’s. The exchanges on FI are different, but in many ways no different than the guys’ who couldn’t wait for the 6’s and the guy who thought anyone who liked the Curtis Electric was a friggin idiot. Here is raising a glass of cheer to many more years of aviation exchanges. I am still living the dream; maybe being at an on-demand at KYIP was my destiny 45 years ago.
