Ah, John Ward, aka 'Wardie', knew him well and a top bloke. He was Debbs boyfriend, Ansetts first girl pilot, for a while. Shame it didn't work, liked them both as a pair. John hated a beer and I have many hazy memories of the charter circuit during the early seventies. He use to fly the Twin Commanche VH-MED that we all called the 'Flying Tampoon'. Are we allowed to say that these days? Probally not. I remember a charter to the races where we sat up all night at Swan Hill 'solving the worlds problems'. How I flew back the next day is one of lifes great mysteries. I was flying a 402 borrowed from Nicolas Skyways, cross hired from Rob Moss another top bloke. Funny really, looking back, all we wanted was the Airlines and now with a year to go to retirement all I want is the good old GA days.