Hope Keith Mattner's still enjoying life. A particularly nice guy.
While living in Korea I often reflected on the skippers I learned from who had learned their trade flying RAAF Meteors out of Kimpo and of course Noel Knappstein who flew RAN Sea Furies (and I believe was shot down over Bangwa Island near Kimpo. One melancholy Sunday morning I looked up telstra.com and found Lushey and Knappsteins phone numbers and rang them up in turn for a chat.
Not sure between those two and Guggenheimer who could fly that -9 through the smallest eye of a needle or faster and closer than anyone else. Be a photo finish! Were illegal tactics allowed Ian Smith would win of course! Is he still around?
As I write this I reflect on dear old Peter Muggleton who did my line training on the -9. When he first said, somewhere over BIK that we'd cross SY NDB at 310 and get in I thought he was joking. Pete later that night bought 12 full size bottles of beer for a 36 hour layover in Cairns and when I told him I didn't drink he looked puzzled and said "They're for me son, get your own".
Good though Peter was he didn't quite give me the hang of landing the-9 properly in the first few sectors. (I'd learned in the dark in HNL). That gift was given by Ivan Scown over a few minutes walk and talk through the Tulla terminal. Another gentleman.
Then....there was ted Munro who taught me all there was to know about my beloved 727. Do such men walk those terminals today?
Safe flying
Sherm