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Just interested to know the ages of some of the youngest pilots to ever make Captain rank among some of the Regional and mainline airlines in Australia?
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My uncle - Harry Shaw - had a B707 command with QANTAS at age 27, way back in the long, dim, dark past
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Unfortunately, I was many years older than he before I scored a lhs in an airline jet.
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Unfortunately, I was many years older than he before I scored a lhs in an airline jet.
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I think Mr Tim Readman or Reedman (excuse the spelling) became Captain Tim at 27. QF B747-2/3/SP
Amazing really, especially as he had a career in GA before QF from memory. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
Amazing really, especially as he had a career in GA before QF from memory. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
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A number of years back, didn't the RAAF have an F111 pilot at the age of something like 19?
Unfortunately same guy tragically killed doing low level sortie over northern NSW. <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
Unfortunately same guy tragically killed doing low level sortie over northern NSW. <img src="frown.gif" border="0">
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I was led to believe (by his wife, if I recall correctly), that St..... Bi...... was the youngest ever B707 capt in Oz, for QF. Not sure how old he was at the time, now B767 capt for QF.
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Got to be in the right place at the right time. Like many Lancaster pilots who got their commands at age 19 during the war and were flying on operations over Germany getting shot at. Unfortunately too, some were in the wrong place at the wrong time and did not survive.
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Centaurus,
Yes indeed and many people do not know that the Lancaster was a single pilot four engined night bomber.
I had the privelege of flying with a few of the survivors. In almost all cases the one quality which stood out was their humility. Can't say the same about a fair proportion of posters on this forum or in the wider community.
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Yes indeed and many people do not know that the Lancaster was a single pilot four engined night bomber.
I had the privelege of flying with a few of the survivors. In almost all cases the one quality which stood out was their humility. Can't say the same about a fair proportion of posters on this forum or in the wider community.
Unfortunately.
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