Re: Who among us had/has a parent who flew/flies?

My dad was AAF and soloed a Stearman in 1942; then he had an attack of hay
fever and they washed him out. Curiously, he never told me he'd been in
flight training until long after I'd bought my plane; it came out when I
grilled him about his WWII experience.
I had an uncle who was a B-29 crew chief and went on after the war to
run a metal shop for Pan Am. And a great-great uncle who flew in WWI, but
he was dead long before I knew him and I never learned what unit he was in.

Seth
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> None, in my case. My father had an uncle by marriage who was a pilot.
> He took my
> dad up one time (long before I was born) and put the plane through all
> sorts of aerobatics.
> Scared him to death. It was his first plane ride and also his last. The
> uncle died in a crash soon thereafter. I remember that his widow had a
> clock made from the prop (what
> was left of it). That misadventure didn't prevent my dad from buying me
> plane rides on
> a few occasions. He was dead by the time I started flying myself.
>
> I grew up off the end of the runway at AKR, which was also a Naval Air
> Station in those
> days. Among my early memories are the Navy jocks coming over in their
> Corsairs every
> morning. There was also considerable blimp activity - both the Navy and
> Goodyear, who
> was the area's biggest employer. I used to visit the airport a lot, but
> could never afford
> flight training until I had finished school and found a job (in another
> state). Thereafter
> I wasted no time, and have been at it more or less continuously ever
> since.
>
> The only blood relative with an aviation connection was an uncle who
> was a tail gunner
> in a WWII Navy patrol plane. He never talked about it on the few
> occasions that I saw
> him. Another uncle by marriage had a plane, but I only got to fly with
> him one time.
>
> David Johnson
>


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