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Forum: Private Flying
1st Jan 2012, 20:50
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

PeterO - I remember your father Alan well with a...

PeterO - I remember your father Alan well with a great sense of humour so he and dad Hector got on very well. (I think he attended Hector's funeral in 1995)

Yes sadly Ralph Reid-Buckle (who did...
Forum: Private Flying
22nd May 2011, 15:18
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

alan, yes I was on that chartered DC8 for the...

alan, yes I was on that chartered DC8 for the presentation dinner in the 1970s!

pity you haven't got that 8mm movie of my father, Hector walking on the prom!

Frank Spencer sent me on my first...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Jan 2008, 09:40
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Yes that was Tony Krarup - remember him well - he...

Yes that was Tony Krarup - remember him well - he was still going strong when he came to my dad's funeral in 1995 but not heard of him since!
Forum: Private Flying
31st Jan 2008, 08:55
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Lesley Hardy became a professional pilot for...

Lesley Hardy became a professional pilot for British Midland, not sure where she is now.

There was also an Australian instructor, Andrew Leet who went off to fly with Air Bridge on the Argosy.
...
Forum: Private Flying
28th Nov 2007, 17:12
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

I had my first flight ever from Burnaston in the...

I had my first flight ever from Burnaston in the rear seat of an Auster Autocrat - the year was 1957 and my father, Hector, was the pilot with my mother in the front also - I think she was more...
Forum: Private Flying
11th Nov 2007, 01:33
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Not to mention the infamous and good friend of...

Not to mention the infamous and good friend of mine Tim Howarth who must now have more hours on the A320 than many - he's now flying for a company in Italy but lives on his boat when he comes home!
Forum: Private Flying
7th Nov 2007, 00:23
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Jason Scattergood just left Ryanair to go to...

Jason Scattergood just left Ryanair to go to Emirates!

I think Hector's scribblings were probably Pitman's Shorthand!



Think that would be Roger Truseler who I recall went down to Hurn to be...
Forum: Private Flying
4th Nov 2007, 23:28
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

llanfairpg, yes I recall both incidents very...

llanfairpg, yes I recall both incidents very well! In the former I recall that the person involved had (allegedly) also managed to do this whilst drinking a bottle of gin (or was it vodka) in the...
Forum: Private Flying
23rd Sep 2007, 19:23
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Ok here is another. A large "balbo" of aircraft...

Ok here is another. A large "balbo" of aircraft including all the aircraft from the flying school had gone across to see the air display at Hucknall in the late 1960s (this was in the days of REAL...
Forum: Private Flying
23rd Sep 2007, 17:54
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

How about any ex-students of EMSF posting any...

How about any ex-students of EMSF posting any funny stories as a sort of trip down memory lane. Here's one I can recall.

This must have happened late 1960s. In those days the ATC was, to say the...
Forum: Private Flying
22nd Sep 2007, 19:11
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

I only home they have a closing down party!

I only home they have a closing down party!
Forum: Private Flying
19th Sep 2007, 19:03
Replies: 82
Views: 36,236
Posted By fireflybob

Sorry to hear the news about EMSF. Some of...

Sorry to hear the news about EMSF.

Some of us remember the early days - I seem to recall the EMSF located there almost as soon as EMA opened for business and I spent many a happy hour there when...
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