Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in news:H-
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That was Hi Line. Right where 202 and 309 met.

That's the place. neverheard it called high line, though. Vito was part
owner when I was there which must have been a few years later. The line
up was Vern Moyer, Henry "Dutch" Gronendahl, Vito and Ron Gruver. Vito
did a lot of my instruction. He was kind of scary to me, and the
necceisty for him to pick up his left hand with his right to put it on
the throttle when he took control was pretty exciting. We never dared
ask, but the rumour around the field was that he was injured in a
banner towing accident.

I managed that field for
a while. We had a light tower right in front of the office shack.

Yeah, myself and another airpoert brat, who now commands a 777 for AA,
climbed up it one night after everyone had gone.

Don't
know where the name Hi Line came from; probably from Ed Size, the guy
who owned the field when I was there. I believe he bought it from Vito
Bruzas. Lou Cristaldi and I were the CFI's there at the time. Right
before Buddy Turner went into the ridge.
I'll bet you and I were within a few months of knowing each other :-)

Maybe. I would have started there in the late sixties. I had been flying
at PGC before that. I vaguely remember a guy named Lou who flew the CAP
T-34 a lot. Might be the guy you mention, but I never had him for an
instructor. Ed Size I never heard of. Vern has an operation at Easton
now., Dutch married big money and I think Vito is still alive.
somewhere.


Bertie

From what you are saying I think you came a bit after me. I just can't
remember if Size bought the operation from Vito or sold it to him.
You are right about Cristaldi and the T34. I've flown that T34 myself
having been a check pilot in that aircraft for CAP while I was there.
Lou was also a CAP check pilot. They kept it in the Tee Hangars way down
to the left of the flight office toward the big water tower. That was a
nice T34 BTW.
I remember having a student named Jordan who owned a Cessna 170 based
there. His father was an insurance guru. They lived in a virtual palace
in Villanova. :-))

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Dudley Henriques