I heard that Pupes Course 1/73 had a reunion earlier this year and have seen a photo with Martin Louw and Gavin Marsh in it. How many attended? We had our first flights in a Harvard on 14th May 1973. My first solo was (at 1000Z) on 6th July 1973.
Is anyone still flying?
I was "age banned" from airline flying at the end of 2020 (after a vary busy year!) and have been instructing since.
On 14th May 2023 I took a kid up for his first flight! After I helped him fill in his first entry in his new logbook, i gave him a photocopy of the first page in my first logbook with a "thanks for flying with me on my special day" note on it.
At 1000Z on 6th July 2023 I taxied out and did one solo circuit (only in a Cessna 152 though!).
Two weeks after that, on 19th and 20th July 2023, I flew in a Harvard again. It rolled and looped as beautifully as ever and I was very, very pleased to have managed one accurate circuit to a good three-pointer. (A couple of the other landings weren't quite as good though... doing what I was saying to two students the very next day: not holding back enough at the end!!)
It's had ups and downs (excuse the pun!!) but a very, very memorable past half century!! And still flying!