A record time as an active pilot?

i HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF TALKING WITH W/C WALLIS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND A FEW YEARS AGO NOW HE TOLD ME THAT ALTHOUGH HE STILL FLEW NEARLY EVERY DAY HE NO LONGER DID AIRSHOWS AS HE WAS 89 YEARS OF AGE !
A FINE GENTLEMAN WHO ALWAYS HAD TIME FOR A CHAT
BRIAN C D

J Boyle.

Sorry, I didn’t make myself very clear. Ken Wallis is in his 90’s now and has been flying for around 70 years.

Regards,

kev35

Sorry, I didn’t make my myself clear….
When I wrote “Here’s someone a bit older…” I was referring to the gentleman who was the original topic of the thread, not Mr. Wallis.
I bought an autographed Corgi of Little Nell at the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum (of which he’s a director)…I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to meet the great man personally.

J Boyle.

Sorry, I didn’t make myself very clear. Ken Wallis is in his 90’s now and has been flying for around 70 years.

Regards,

kev35

Here’s someone a bit older…
Dr. Forrest Bird, WWII pilot and inventor of the modern portable medical respirator has been flying since the age of 14 in 1935 and got received his license at 16…1937.

He was an innovator of advanced medical transport methods and was perhaps the first to outfit aircraft with modern medevac systems.

He also developed the four-engine PBY, the Bird Innovator.

He’s 88 and still an active pilot and a certified helicopter instructor.
He files his Bell 212 quite a bit. I’m told he flies children and guests in it during the annual open-house he stages to help keep the neighbors from complaining about aircraft noise from his private airstrip.
He recently opened a musem of his aircraft on his lakeside estate in Idaho.

I had the pleasure to meet him at its opening. My NHS-trained wife was thrilled to meet him, the Bird Resiprator was the first high-tech bit of kit she was trained to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Bird

Ken Wallis must be pushing somewhat close to the 70 year nark now?

Regards,

kev35

Looks like no-one else can beat that length of involvement.