A Blast From the Past

A Blast From the Past
Here is an Oldie Goldie - Northeast Airlines Conviar 240.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Jellystone Air Park: Hangin' With The EG

Jellystone Air Park: Hangin' With The EG: I love small town airports.  One thing I always look forward to when I visit the EG in sunny California is spending time at the Petaluma ...

Monday, November 12, 2012

Ole' Colleagues

Here's a short story for ya,

Well I was just laying around the house these few past evenings; yeah I'm still nursing that stubborn head cold. Anyway, idle hands are dangerous as you know, so here's my short story.

Last month I began teaching a Human Factors course to the AIRBUS pilots of the San Francisco base, and in one of my very first classes, there was a colleague of mine from Eastern Airlines sitting in attendance that day.

Now, some of you who follow the life and times of a Safety may have heard me say this before, but there aren't too many Eastern guys left at UAL, so I just had to get a picture of fellow United Airlines A320 Captain Tim Donohue. Let me just say right off the bat; he is an awesome guy and didn't seem to mind this "wet behind the ears" younger buck trying to facilitate Human Factors and Change Review to a well seasoned airline veteran like himself.  According to Tim, and a few other Eastern folk at United; I may very well be the last EAL pilot to leave United if/when they say I must go from the cockpit. It's suppose to be 65, but who knows for sure anymore by the time I get there.




Sunday, November 4, 2012

The telling of stories

     This past weekend, my bride of twenty two years and I were talking about some of the past characters in our lives that we both have flown with over the years. For those that may not know/remember, my bride was a Pan American Stewardess.

That's right, a Pan Am Sky Goddess to be exact; check her out. Ain't she a beauty? 


    Anyway, we were reminiscing about those folks we worked with over the years; especially at PAA.  Seems like there just aren't enough characters in the airline buisness any more.

There were people such as Father O'Malley, Brent Justice, Kenny Terrell, Dan Linden, and Vance Warren. Each of these individuals brought something to your day; like Father O'Malley - he had a new dirty joke for you every time he saw you, it didn't matter how little time had gone by since the last time he had told you one. Now the NSEG may have flown Father O'Malley when he was flying as an Engineer on the AIRBUS A-300, so he might be able to provide more details for us what a great character he was back then.

So over the next several months, you may see a post pop up about someone we feel made a difference in our our lives; safe to say though, we'll try and write about them in a interesting and humorous manner.         

Ya'll be good now, ya hear!