40 years ago

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:25:05 -0500, "H. Adam Stevens"
wrote:

Greetings

On May 1, 1967 I flew my last pre-solo dual.
I soloed on May 2, at 10 hours, in Cessna N8624J, a brand new 150, the
first
student to solo in it.
The rent was $7/hr wet.

Heh.

In 1967, my parent's house sold for $25,000. My dad bought a new
Chevy for about $2100, and a gallon of regular was about $.35.

Just add a zero to everything and it comes out about right (except the
house, So. Cal real estate being an outlier)

I know inflation happened, a 172 was $14,000 back then.
But I was able to pay for flying lessons in high school by washing
airplanes.

I knew one guy who soloed before he got his driver's license.
He used to ride his bicycle to the airport to fly airplanes.

Cheers
H.

Here's a memory:
http://www.marrazzo.net/~spiderwebne...veratFL240.JPG