John
Is that you? If so Malc talks (long!) and often about you and your aircraft at Tollerton.
If it is you, I hope you are doing ok, it has indeed been a long time, so long in fact that they seem like the good old days!, yet most of us couldnt get away fast enough!! I got out and found a new life, it wasn’t easy, but now I get home at nights and can plan my weekends, and I probably earn more than most LAE’s do, in the UK at any rate.
I am still in the Aerospace industry, but at the blunt end, working for a major Airbus part’s supplier.
As you probably know, I work on aircraft for the fun of it now, I still get the thrills, but without all of the crapp that just got worse as time went on, and you know, I loved the Viscount’s Argosy’s etc, but I was at Dan-Air when they got the first Bae-146’s, I hated those aircraft, so went back to Viscount’s and Herald’s at BAF, good old days, but a sign of thing tp come.
When I became a dad, I decided to make a brake and be there for my family, and I have never regreted it for a moment, my son is the best thing that ever happened to me, and now we work on old aircraft together.
Take care John, and dont let the aircraft engineering game eat you alive, I’ve seen it happen to some great guys.
Best wishes,
Ritch Blood.