tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post115051058396266816..comments2024-03-18T05:15:30.666-04:00Comments on Foma*: Why My Dad Fliesyellojkthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-74853077836181620722011-11-23T22:12:34.641-05:002011-11-23T22:12:34.641-05:00Pretty helpful data, thank you for the article.
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It's funny how those of us who grew up on the same street always dreamed of living a more exotic life and those of you who moved around a lot always yearned for more stability. <BR/><BR/>I think it's one of those <I>you always want what you don't have</I> kind of things.Jeff and Charli Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868852480996815442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150733769641569672006-06-19T12:16:00.000-04:002006-06-19T12:16:00.000-04:00For a depressing father's day roadtrip story, che...For a depressing father's day roadtrip story, check out the most recent <A HREF="http://audio.wbez.org/tal/132.m3u" REL="nofollow">This American Life</A>. It starts around the 14 minute mark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150727690428868792006-06-19T10:34:00.000-04:002006-06-19T10:34:00.000-04:00Mission Accomplished.Mission Accomplished.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150722497843947832006-06-19T09:08:00.000-04:002006-06-19T09:08:00.000-04:00Thank you for the nice blog on fathers' day. And h...Thank you for the nice blog on fathers' day. And here is wishing you a great Fathers' Day also.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150667982707210482006-06-18T17:59:00.000-04:002006-06-18T17:59:00.000-04:00yellojkt, great stories. Many of the base brats I...yellojkt, great stories. Many of the base brats I know are better for the experience of moving around - much more adaptable and with a broader range of experience.<BR/><BR/>I loved your copyright notice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150658316258146162006-06-18T15:18:00.000-04:002006-06-18T15:18:00.000-04:00Thanks for the great stories, kb and 'mudge. I hav...Thanks for the great stories, kb and 'mudge. I have a lot of great flying stories I should get around to telling too.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150651318959264442006-06-18T13:21:00.000-04:002006-06-18T13:21:00.000-04:00I posted a reminiscence on the A-blog a few days a...I posted a reminiscence on the A-blog a few days ago about being a co-pilot in my dad's Piper Cub when I was too small to see out the windows. At age 3, I'd already been flying for years. Once when my parents hadn't been married too long they flew the Piper Cub from Oklahoma to Baltimore to visit my mom's family. There was a storm over Kansas that necessitated an emergency landing in a farmer's field. The farmer and his wife came out to see who had landed on their property. My dad got out with my brother, then age 3, and they were amazed: "You are flying that plane with this baby?!?" Then my mother got out with me (age 8 months) in her arms. Once they got over their double shock, they gave us shelter for the night, and our two families exchanged Christmas cards for the next 40 years or so.<BR/><BR/>The Piper Cub was an unjustifiable extravagance, at a time when my parents were eating off a folding card table because they couldn't afford a dining room set. My mother never has completely gotten over it. But my dad really enjoyed the plane and used it as much as he could for practical purposes, not just flying around aimlessly. He later had a Cessna 150 for many years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150636600089496432006-06-18T09:16:00.000-04:002006-06-18T09:16:00.000-04:00Hi, yellojkt. Curmudgeon here. I, too, posted a lo...Hi, yellojkt. Curmudgeon here. I, too, posted a long piece about my father over on the Achenblog, but have a Dad/flying story for you here.<BR/><BR/>My father was in the Navy during WWII, and was quartermaster on a subchaser in the South Pacific (he and his PC1135 sank Japaense sub I-26 near Wotje). I was born 9 months and 20 minutes after my father got home from the Navy; my brother followed 16 months later.<BR/><BR/>Soon after he returned home, my father started taking flying lessons in small airports around Philly, and soon got his license. When I was 5, the company he worked for had some sort of vacation house in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as a corporate plane--a Beechcraft V-tail. With the company pilot on board, my father flew my mom, brother, and me to Ft. Lauderdale (I believe we landed in Opalocka). Great trip--saw the Everglades, etc.<BR/><BR/>Every now and then, my father rented a plane for a local flight here or there, to keep his hand in: Aeroncas, Piper Cubs, Aircoupes, and Taylorcraft (I don't remember any Cessnas, but might have been). Every year on our birthdays, he would take the birthday boy up for a flight--that was supposedly "our" birthday present, but I suspect my dad enjoyed it even more than we did.<BR/><BR/>Then came the year he took me up (I was maybe 7, don't exactly remember how old I was) and flew along the Delaware River in Philly. He flew UNDER the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge (north Philly to Jersey). I actually don't remember it. But somebody got the plane's registration number, and complained to the FAA. A few days later, somebody called the house and asked who it was who flew under the bridge. Unfortunately, it was my mother who answered the phone. Between my mother and the FAA, that was the end of my father's flying career--one or the other yanked his license. Though he never flew again, we still continued to visit local airplanes in the Philly suburbs to watch the planes take off and land. By the time I was 8 or 10 I could identify every kind of small airplane there was by make and model type, and all military planes as well. And of course as a kid I only built about a thousand model airplanes.<BR/><BR/>Happy Father's Day, yel, and see you at the next BPH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150635483866485782006-06-18T08:58:00.000-04:002006-06-18T08:58:00.000-04:00I'm not crazy about flying. Please send my thanks ...I'm not crazy about flying. Please send my thanks to your dad for serving our country.<BR/>Hi here by way of Michele's today. Happy weekend... Paigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04702664099837224184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-1150581115044185942006-06-17T17:51:00.000-04:002006-06-17T17:51:00.000-04:00I love to fly. Not that I have a license, nor hav...I love to fly. Not that I have a license, nor have I been in years, but the feeling never leaves you. If your Dad wants to encourage flying in young people, he should check out his local Civil Air Patrol. Your dad sounds very cool.Mooselethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874418427786990740noreply@blogger.com