November 9, 2003
The following message received from Jack today:How do
update and/or correct my bio?
My son is a Navy vet. He served aboard the Enterprise and worked on
the flight deck. He has a hundred stories to tell, some hilarious, some
tragic. I hope he doesn't wait until he is nearly 71 to get it all
written down. He is also a pilot and he and I both have a love of
aviation and airplanes. In this vain I sent him a rather bland treatise
on what I considered the most beautiful airplanes ever to fly. His reply
literally blew me over.
Here it is:
There are all kinds of good looking, neat, cool, etc., airplanes.
Check out some thoughts of mine:
1- The best looking airplane, ever: any bird bringing mail from home.
2- The worst: any plane carrying bodies.
3- The most memorable: the plane you soloed in.
4- The 2nd most memorable: The 1st P-51 you ever saw, flying or not.
5- Memorable moments at the airport:
First flight.
First gear-up landing you ever saw.
Peanuts in a bottle of red NEHI, while sitting in some retired
colonel's Navion, looking out of the cockpit, and fantasy flying through
a cloud of Playboy pinups.
The first time you went to the airport, preflighted, flew, landed,
put her away, logged your flight, and still, there was nobody at the
airport. A true solo.
I have tons of this kind of tripe. Jackie
Jack Walsh
