charlie
charlie also flew his mustang across the north pole and later he repeated the flight in an f100 supersabre. he left the airforce and flew 707's for pan am.
legend has it that when he was flying for pan am out of jfk in his later years no one was to speak to charlie if he was on his way to the aircraft because he might forget where he was going and go home.
he was killed in a grumman (engine failure) landing at st thomas harbour usvi. i flew with him in 69 70 in a pby, i was the flight steward.
we had a lot of fun way back then, we had goose, mallard, widgeon, sandringham, sunderland and a 185 on floats, 23 in total. my mother ran operations for antilles air boats, a great little airline.
bring back the good days.
graeme:)