Chip_Mull
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Joined: 2/2/2005
From: Granbury,
TX, USA
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Nice thread guys! Especially Ercoupe N99879. Enjoyed your comments about Paul. I was working on the AMA project "Got Wings" a few years ago and asked Paul P. if he would give us a sound bite for the ad. Sure, he said, "It all starts with a model and a dream". I always thought that was the best and most perfect quote we ever got. I'm not sure what happened to the program. They have had the same ad for years.
I started flying in the Army in May, 1968. Did my senior trip in Southeast Asia as a helicopter pilot. When I returned stateside, I started my commercial training at Temple Texas. The year after I left the Army I started flying helicopters commercially in Alaska. They are used for Helitack support for fire fighters in the summers. After moving to the Trans Alaska Pipeline, I left helicopters to become a light twin Captain for Fairbanks Flight Service. That winter I hired on to a small airline in Alaska called Wien Air Alaska. After ten years of the best flying of my life we got caught up in the throes of a Corporate raider named Jim Flood. He basically trashed the airline and I went to work for PSA out of San Diego, CA.
I have always been in and out of modeling and General Aviation for the past 40 years (wow, hits home when you put it in writing). I now own two 11AC Aeronca Chiefs. One is a project in the true sense of the word and one is flyable. One to fly and one to fix. If I could figure out how to post a picture again, I'll post a pic of it.
Keep up the great posts and all the great advice to the new pilots (I hate the terms beginner, novice and newcomer). We are all still learning and still newcomers of one sort or another. I worked for decades with the Air Line Pilots Assn. Education Committee traveling to colleges and universities talking to students about becoming an Airline Pilot. Can't say that I could look a youngster in the face and tell him/her it's a great place to work anymore.
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