Archive (7 life histories found)

Gulf Air had a fleet of Boeing 737's for short haul routes and for long haul Tristars. I had flown 737's before and was a bit taken aback when I first saw the Gulf Air Boeing 737 flight manual, for the first page was a disclaimer from Boeing for…

One of the most interesting and amusing periods of my life were the years I spent flying in Nigeria. I was employed by Guinness Peat Aviation in Shannon and they had a contract with Nigeria Airways. This was a 'wet' lease i. e. supplied aircraft…

The course was a series of lectures and demonstrations on how to be a successful salesman. We had the dubious pleasure of meeting one of these rare British specimens one afternoon. We were informed that he had just returned from a sales mission…

I had been working as a trainee salesman for an office suppliers company in the east end of London. I was not very excited with the prospect of spending the rest of my life selling paper, ink and copy machines. I had a CPL (Civil Pilots license )…

I started my flying career with an airline cargo company who were regarded in aviation circles as the'F Troop' of the flying world. They operated , when I joined, a couple of WW Two aircraft, DC 4's and 6's, which had four piston engines long past…

I will always remember that night as one of the loneliest I had ever experienced. There was a full silver moon shinning on the Indian Ocean and off to the left I could just make out the rugged coastline of Iran. We had taken off from Bahrain at…