You blokes should go read my story in classic topics .... page 13 to be exact ... where I witnessed a Cessna 206 amphib flip over only yards from where I was waiting for it to come and pick me up. In that story , I later on took advice from Cat Driver and I never , never failed to utter these words ...

Busted.

Hi everyone ....Iam hangin' in and as soon as I am back up a few pounds , I'll write ... I promise.

. From the air , our camp , consisting of five tents and an outhouse adorned with the tradional half moon peephole , looked rather inviting as it was perched high on a bank overlooking a river , a green rushing glacial torrent still carving away at its winter mantle of ice that often tore off large ...

I just recieved an update on Butch Foster's situation. He is presently at The U of A hospital in Edmonton waiting for a bed at the Foothills hospital in Calgary. His ankle is compound fractured and he has some compression problems in his spine , but , as usual he is in good spirits. We all seem to l...

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Thank you all for your patience.

I am bumping this up so that I HAVE to finish both tales today , that of the last flight of the Super DC3 and the Baffin Island Adventure.

Stay tuned.

There was a bomber built for WW2 called the Martin B26 Marauder that was a little ahead of its time in that it gained its high performance with a small laminar flow wing but too many pilots were lost during training or with real engine failures causing the aircraft to roll onto its back and crash. T...

I will find which hospital Butch is in tommorow and I will also try to get an update on his health for you all.

The pilot of the A26 was a friend of mine , Butch Foster , one of the best pilots I know. Butch did the right thing in rejecting the take-off but the A26 is a very high performance aircraft and was going very fast when he rejected. He is in good spirits and is recovering from leg injuries. I hope to...

Back on page four is the Baffin Island story , this being the continuation thereof. She had shed her thick woolen arctic geoligist work clothes and was freshly bathed ... oh how she did glide into the main tent , catlike and she did enormous justice to the track suit she so graciously filled. For a ...

Sorry , I had another setback. But I will finish my stories tomorrow.
Duke

I am back. I arrived at home today more details later. I gotta spin up my gyros. The first story I wrote on this forum was about the lobster tossing adventure that happened out over the Atlanti with a failed engine that would not feather because of the broken crankshaft. After the party , which was ...

. The Casa 212 is a chubby little speedster powered by two Dash 10 Garretts of a thousand horsepower each. Designed as a Spanish military troop carrier and cargo aeroplane it is ideal for the electro-magnetic survey role by virtue of its large interior that can accomodate small military vehicles eas...

. The job in Peace River Alberta had gone quite smoothly considering I was a new Captain on the Casa 212 and the flat terrain of Alberta made it easy to master the art of EM survey flying which was very different from straight Magnetometer flying I had been doing up on James Bay (Attawapaskat) in a ...

Terorism. Yes it is finally rearing its ugly head here in Canada .

Brian Mulroney has infiltrated Air Canada , this being a flagrant demonstration of a COMPLETE loss of integrity. Why does that mongrel need to involve himself with Air Canada when he has already made tens of millions off AC already?

Well it is official now. The "pre funeral pissup" is 25th July at the Transwest Helicopter hangar in Chilliwack and starts early afternoon with a roast pig , BBQ salmon and a band later. So far there are 150 people and all aviators are welcome. My family including grandchildren and daughter from Mon...

It was tough to drag my arse off the couch given that my bowels are bound up tighter that a bull's arse in fly season but it was an offer that I couldn't refuse ... a call from my young friend Mark. He more or less insisted that he was coming up in his Yak to pick me up and fly to Arlington Washingt...

Hey Chevy , I promise I will finish that story but a most amazing thing just happened to me and I am writing a story as we speak.

Please say it isn't so.

That is the most beautiful Staggerwing I have ever seen and it came to visit me here in Chilliwack a few weeks back.

http://www.avcanada.ca/albums/displayim ... um=5&pos=6

And to Based on Principle...

Best of luck in this matter. I have a VERY good contact in Ottawa and will help if I can.

Even if you were a complete ars*hole they cannot do this to you.

Hey Cat Man ... how are you doin'? Is Penny with you over there? When I phone your house it seems the fax is stuck on or something. I was worried because you had not been posting. Anyhow , as you are aware I never get involved in the "down and dirty" with transport on this forum mainly because Dukes...

Well it seems that I must be one of the luckiest guys alive. I really needed to finish the story I started about old JGQ , the derelect C117 Super DC3 and its final ferry flight. For the last week I have drifted in and out of bouts of pain that the morphine fails to arrest completely but I promise I...

. and Pinkus I'll make this a sort of lesson for you. Air Southwest don't have a "backer" but are an intergrel part of a large construction company. I have seen them operate a Navajo and then a Cheyenne and a Chieftain. Now they have two C206 and a C182. ASW wisely operate whatever aircraft suits it...

Hey Dex I know the owner of the Dove and was just talking to him the other day ... quite a character. He was busted for flying without a licence and now works as a mechanic. The aircraft is getting derelict but it just keeps resurfacing. I would sure like to fly it once I was satisfied it was airwor...

Money and greed.

You can rest assured that the proprietors of the resturant had no say in this matter.

The airport manager , who leases the land to a farmer, should pay more attention to local permanent businesses.



I am pissed off too and I will go see him.

Firstly , I thank Doug Copeland for allowing me to visit the Terry Fox legend of courage.

I read it slowly as it made my pain slip away for the time .... courage ...true , true courage.

Fotoflyer , I thank you too. I spend less time on the couch now , after reading that.

Duke