On 2007-06-12 17:15:02 -0400, Bertie the Bunyip said:

Dudley Henriques wrote in
news:2007061216233516807-dhenriques@rcncom:

On 2007-06-12 16:06:36 -0400, Bob Moore
said:

Dudley Henriques wrote
Steve and I knew each other quite well many years ago when he was a
partner in the old Valley Forge Airport in Pa. His partner had a
French wife you had to see to believe. If I remember right (and who
could forget her..her name was Yvette. :-)

That would have been Norm Hortman....a TWA B-747 Captain, and Yvette
was a former TWA Flight Attendant. Norm would later own the old 3M
airport just north of Philly. He and Yvette had a Part 141
Certificate and School. I got my CFI/CFII there about 3-4 years
after joining PanAm.

Norm would fly to JFK for his TWA flights in an Aztec. Yvette became
an ATP flying him back and forth. She managed the Part 141 School
and was a real "BITCH".

Some years later, Norm bought the farm when the battery in the Aztec
broke loose in IMC turbulent conditions and started an inflight fire.

Norm was one of the original American AA-1 Yankee distributors and I
was doing some part time work for one of his dealers across the river
at the Burlington, Co. airport. I still have a picture of Norm and
myself and a AA-1.

Bob Moore

I remember the Hortman's well, and you and I are for once in complete
agreement on Mrs. Hortman :-) Her "attitude" was a legend in Pa.
I instructed over at Burlington County when it was Cameron Field. At
that time it was owned by Dave and Phil Cohen who also owned an
ornamental iron works factory if I remember right. The guy I worked
for at Cameron was a real character named Orville Jenkins.
Between Orville going off flying a Goose all the time and me getting
stuck with all the students and dodging parachutes all day long, life
was interesting to say the least.
Do you remember Bill Whitsell from over at Flying W or Freddy Tonyas.
Fred grabbed my AT6 one evening over at Clementon and buzzed the
Silverlake Inn. They got the number and it took me two days to
convince the fuzz it wasn't me. Fred I believe ended up a Captain for
United, and Whitesell was an Eastern Captain who worked a great deal
on his medical insurance I think. Anyway, the money to build Flying W
had to come from somewhere :-)


Holy ****.. How old are you?

You don't really want to know do you? :-)))

You must have known Bob Cummings then..

I met him the day Whitesell sold him the Aztec. He had come in to do a
show at the Valley Forge Music Fair and he took a few of us along that
night as his guests. VERY nice guy, and really a pleasure to be around.
He showed us his FAA license. The number was the lowest I had ever seen.
Along with getting to know Cummings that night I had another lucky
encounter. I went out to the hot dog stand to get a dog and this very
attractive woman was standing there in costume from the show eating a
dog. It was Juliet Prowse. Real nice people in that show
:-))
I knew some of the guys who flew C-46's out of Flying W in their early
days.. And you must have known Al Syther..
Don't remember him, but I do remember Zantop flying those Curtis
Electric Prop C46 Doom Buggies out of Wilmington.

Tonyas at last look was living in Whitsells house over at Flying W,
and the Cohens had turnedCameron Field into an industrial park which I
believe is not Burlington County Airport.
But the guy who was Snyder's partner with the wife named Yvette was
another guy. I just can't remember his name off the top of my head but
it definately wasn't Hortman and was another Yvette.

That's right. I knew them both and it wasn't the Hortmans. I can't see
them getting on with Steve, or anyone else for that matter. Only the
most desperate would look for a job at 3M.

His name was Doug something.
Dudley