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Old 29th Nov 2019, 02:03
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Ascend Charlie
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
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My father's logbooks show him flying the following:
Tiger Moth
Anson
Botha
Blenheim
Wellington
Halifax II
C47
and then into the airline:
Lancastrian (flew as captain after 1.7 hrs dual), and on one trip flew 68 hrs in 5 days. That's over 13 hrs a day, 5 in a row.
Shorts flying boat
Hythe flying boat
back onto Lancastrian
DC4 (no apparent logged dual checks, straight in as captain)
Constellation, after 6.7 day and 1.5 night dual.

Don't throw out those logbooks, they are a source of history. Particularly when you read the entry where he ditches in the sea and logs 3.5 hrs dinghy time.
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