Reader John Watkins has owned his PA-18 Super Cub for 37 years. “I’ve flown that plane all over the place,” noted John in a phone call. One peak at his pictures will tell you that. So fond of his Cub, John says it’ll be “the last toy to go.”
Sea of Cortez
80 miles south of Arctic Circle
Anza Borrego State Park
“The Last Toy To Go”
You listened to Sky King? Well, you pre-date me! I watched Sky King on Saturday’s TV. Great memories.
I have a book out if anyone is interested. Growing up in a rough & tough aviation world of the 60s and 70s. It’s crude & sometimes lewd and definitely not “pathetically correct” but it is a lot of funny about some wild times on the Mexican border…smuggling electronics INTO Mexico during the 1980s. Beech 18s, DC-3 and C-46 type flying from south Texas airports. Wild n’ wooly and mostly unknown aviation.
Over & Back by Wild Bill Callahan on Amazon & B&N.
Yo … Wild Bill / I like the turn of that phrase, “Pathetically Correct.” Says it all.
Looked at the Amazon review – looks like big fun – Down Mexico way; at night; under the stars; on a weak San Diego VOR, boring a hole through the coastal scud.
Stay well …
Thanks D.W. I never know what kind of comments I’ll get on that. It’s a no-holds-barred, damn the torpedoes type of book. Very unconventional with 107 photos. If you decide to buy it, get the paperback version. Thanks again. We’re being over-run with P.C. Seriously.
I used to listen to the radio Sky King, but I earned my ticket while writing a book on my favorite radio show, Captain Midnight. (http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2176-3 for the curious) I got a P-28, and kept it for years.
A few years ago, I found an E6B-type computer, brand-named the “Skyking.”
At different times in my life I had two super cubs. Sure wish I had either back!
Jon’s comment about his cub was the reason I bought mine 10 years ago, Jon has quite a compliment of toys believe me and when I mentioned I was thinking about a cub he said”It will be the last toy I sell” that was enought for me. Now I see what he means. Cub will be the last to go for me also!
Sorry, Ben, but I have to call you out on this one: it’s “peek,” not “peak.”
Seems as though us old pilots all have that frame of mind.
I caught the flying virus as a kid in the forties listening to radio “Sky King” and model aircraft. Although I received my ticket in the sixties, I really learned the craft in my PA-22 “Flying Milk-Stool.” It could take off on a Nickel and land on a dime. Miss it a lot.
I also caught flying virus in the forties. Received ticket(s) in the sixties (Cub) and really learned the flying craft in my PA-22. 80 oct. was less that 35c and my mechanic/flight instructor was $4/hr. Yes, those were the days. . .
To prove he can land on a dime, he is set up and on final approach to that flat piece of rock just below and to the right of the cowling!!!
Ben, great adventures !!
I have a Pa28 , purchased new in 1977. My eldest son then five, has been flying the Cherokee for 20 years. Comm, instument & multi..
Paul Lucas