CC, There'd be something seriously wrong if you were WC's age!
He's a good guy for sure. Just getting on in time now.
No I was not with Bop, but with Transkei Airways. Started with them in Sept 1981. Got to know all the guys though thru our mutual interest in the K......Bok. Got to know Murad thru RB.
TAC still stands as far as I know, and when I celebrate my 50 years in aviation sometime, I hope I can get a whole bunch of ol timers there for a few dops. The Harvard Cafe though, are the place these days. Rand is not the sameas what it used to be, but for me it will always be special. I think most of us ol timers spent many hours there in the 70's and early 80's.
R9.00 per hour with an instructor on C150 ZS-DZT in 1974. Petrol was 23cents a gallon, 19 cents for a packet of Lucky Strikes, 26cents for a beer, and R5.00 would have bought you 2 steaks and a bottle of Tassies.
Man, was it expensive to learn to fly.
