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Si
Ey You can spot, them easily
when you walk through the
Far of the flight lounge at
he FBO, They’re the fellows
Byeafing through dog-eared
gimagazines or staring blankly
Zunto space or chatting quietly
# aril each other or the girl at
a @ reception. desk. More
often than not they're wear-
Eng neat busi suits and

¥ landedkon the @
of edging
Buaine

then, I 200,

jot time:— diab ae
than any other corporate
pilot in the country. I ‘flew
SEN (owned by Senac In-
vestmenst Ltd.) for a couple
of years and then Mitch

Ethey glance at their wrist
Swatches a lot.

Es Executive aircraft char-
7 pilots. With an airplane
for hire. Waiting in the

Harry Kelly is a charter
epilot with a Learjet 85 for

ae Just a enti collar
orker on his way to work in
‘T1 Thunderbird. Forty-

get wherever
ind back and doit in the style
hat you deserve from $1.95 a
mile, Kelly will gladly deliver
you in the Lear. He'd like a
‘day's notice to get prepared
but in a pinch he'll have you
the air 30 minutes after
ou call his Vancouver base
~ and make a reservation for

= the airplane,
=: The airplane is, for all
intents and purposes, ready
go 24 hours a day, 365 days
year, so it follows that the
pilots are, too. When they're
on standby at home, they
keep a running check on the
: -weather around British Col-
umbia. Kelly was ‘phoned at
home one Sunday by a cus-
tomer who wanted to go. .
now. He called a co-pilot, who
was available, then called the
customer back and told him
they'd hit the start button in
an hour. He flight planned

: from home.

Kelly is Chief Pilot and
Operations Manager for Can-

ada Learjet-Ltdy the Lear's .

at Execaire took

over the operation of SEN. I
went with the airplane.”

Bronfman wanted Kelly

out of the 125 and into a Lear

25, “but I'said.there was’ no:.;

way I was going to fly one of 2°

those Mickey Mouse air-

+ Planes. The only; Lear I'd

ever seen’ was a Model 23 *
+ + .” Given the choice
between flying the Lear or
becoming unemployed, he
spent the next-15 months
flying CF-TXT. “It did not
take very long for me to
become very impressed with
the Lear; it just sold itself.
Today, of course, Iam a great
believer in Learjets.” -

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He called it ‘Mickey Mouse’

but the love affair was lasting

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brand, for “if the

sees ‘less than first-class
liquor,-he might begin to
wonder’ what else about the
operation is less than first
class.

ie customer gets
‘whatever food he wants —
he’s ‘paying for it — which we

line

ports. The are
similarly impressed by the
airplane's 45,000-ft. altitude.
capability and once in a while
Kelly gets the opportunity to
let them look down on a 747.

Contrary to what one
might expect, Kelly's pass:
engers rarely make unrea>

suppliers, such as. CARA, ae
CP flight kitchens, But since
the airplane doesn't have an
oven, all meals are cold,
either sandwiches or deluxe
box lunches.
‘“[hey’re not interested
in a hot meal anyway, but 2
getting from A to B
quickly as possible, as site
~Oiniically as possible and in an

sonable d ds in return
for the $1.95-a-mile tab. “I
have never once had a pass-
enger ask me to push wea-
ther,” he said. “If anything,
they ask me if Tm sure it’s
safe to’ go.” ae

If there is’ any. doubt
about the weather at destin-
ation, he puts it to the’ pass-
engers on a percentage basis
— the weather is-such ‘that

This article was. published last fall in
Canadian Aviation. About the time it appeared
in print Harry Kelly left his Vancouver job for
one in Calgary with Dome Petroleum. The one
thing that has not changed is Harry's strong love

for the Lear

The next few years were
spent in. the Arctic. with-

72(anadian -The
~ Lear 35 Kelly flies is the
:company demonstrator, but
‘because airplanes sitting idle
cost money, the airplane is on
commercial licence so that

it will make money. Rent it or
buy it, it makes no difference

lanes. He washed and help-
change the mags on the
joat-equipped Piper J-3
ed by Dave Duncan's

university he
‘Joined the RCAF. By his 19th

id when he turned 21 he
d 1,000 hours’ jet fighter

e.
He spent 12 years in the

His military flying ended
1964, when he was given a
‘ound job at the Hall Beach

EWline site, and his mili-
“tary career ended in 1965.

“I'd flown a Nordair C-46

n fuel runs out of Hall Beach

hen I was up there,” he

‘said. “I had about 100 hours

the airplane whenI got out

flew for Nordair for awhile,
<then went to Toronto and

Sitting in the right seat,

-or jump seat, while someone
else was doing the flying was,

be = frankly, boring. “But more
= important, I was losing my
: proficiency as a pilot. We
“only got 24 hours’ flying in
each quarter to keep current,
‘which wasn't enough, and
~ besides that I didn't take to
:..the’ civil service environ-
= ment. At that time I think I

=-.was too young for that kind

~ ‘of life.”
Next stop was the old
‘Timmins Aviation Ltd. (then

i: owned by John Timmins,

now de Havillands, vice-pres-

i. ident, marketing) where Kel-

bose and Twin Otters; back
south to Canada Learjet at
Toronto; east to Montreal to
fly Canadair's Lear and Con-
vair 240 — and a foot in the
door of the Chal pro-

Aviation..on-~

Jet.

environment in which they
can work on the way.”

~ The airlines, Kelly main-
tained, are the best thing
going for his type of oper-
ation, or any kind of cor-

rate ion. “You can’t -

there's a 25 per cent chance

-rof being able to land, for in-

stance. If the

until I look in the back to see
if they're busy. :

“But first-time passen-"
gers are also impressed by
the service. When

naissance flight/Sandspit;"
Sandspit/Port Hardy; Port
Hardy/Vancouver; Vancou-

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are great people and trem-
endous passengers, and Gor-
die himself is one of the
greatest people to get along
with as far as aviation is con-
cerned. He's always inter-
ested in what we do up front,
and how the airplane per-
forms.” :

Lightfoot was curious on
one flight about what would
happen in the case of a sud-
loss at

ver/Comox; Comox/Sand:

permit we sometimes leave
the cockpit and chat with the
passengers. Since we are
close to the coffee dispenser,
we show them the courtesy
of serving them a cup and
when is the last time an,
airliner captain served you
coffee? If the passengers
don't believe in ‘little’ air-
planes when they start out,
they do when they get back.”

If there's one! thing a
charter captain must have, it
is discretion because once
in a long, long time the

permey you see is not. pi mbo you

eet.

“The $c-were

accepts the odds, the flight
departs and the $1.95 begins.
We never compromise on

put three or four highly-paid
in the back ofan

gram. Then the Parti Que-
becois was elected in Nov-
ember of 1976 “and there was
no way my kids.were going to
be brought up solely in
French.” So he moved back
to Canada Learjet and final-
ly, in 1977, “back home” to
the West to take over the
company's western oper-
ations at the Executive Air
Craft hangar at Vancouver
International.

If you're an individual
and you want to charter the
Lear, you'll probably be
asked to pay for the flight in
advance. “The casual charter-
er probably has got our name
from the Yellow Pages and
gives us a call asking the
price of a charter to, say, Las
Vegas. Usually the conver-
sation ends when I tell him
the trip will cost about
$4,500. We treat companies a -
little differently; we normal-
ly ask for the name of the
company’s bank manager and
give him a call to see if the
company's credit is okay.”

Companies, of course,
provide most of the business.
Kelly is protective of his
customers’ names, but they
include development compan-
ies, financial institutions, mi-
ning concerns, entertainment
groups, etc.

It was said earlier that
the Lear, CGPUN, goes for
$1.95 a statute mile plus
extras. What extras? To
begin with, a $400 minimum
charge. Then there is $100
for each landing away from
Vancouver plus all other
charges incurred on behalf of
the customer, such as in-
cidental crew costs, hangar-
age and food. If fuel is
required away from base, the
customer pays everything
above 85 cents a gallon. For
each hour of fiying time, the
customer gets two free hours
on the ground; the meter
then starts ticking over at
$125 an hour.

The $1.95 is charged on
the Great Circle point-to-
point distance; the customer
does not pay for long and
sometimes convoluted vec-
tored approaches,

Canada Learjet provides
liquor, mix, coffee/tea and
peanuts, The liquor is all top

airliner for four or five hours
and expect them to work
with any kind of efficiency.”

Passengers always love
the Lear. “They're truly
awed by its performance,”
Kelly said, and repeat pass-
engers often ask for a max-
imum per take-off.

airport require-
ments, Kelly said.
Nervous Nellies? “Oh,
there's a certain amount of
hand-holding sometimes, es-
pecially with first-time pass-

engers and more especially’

with women. And, yes, I
sometimes have to calm their
fears, explain that the wings
are not going to come off in

He obliges by rotating to a
25° nose-up attitude to main-
tain 170 kts. and 6,000 fpm. It
is sometimes a practical pro-
cedure for. departure from
some of B.C.’s valley air-

Meet Bill Wallace — a
convict who's getting a sec-
ond chance to make good by
doing good.

A late-winter snowstorm
howled down over Boston.
On one of the city’s ex-
pressways — known even in
the best of times as the
“Southeast Distressway” —
two patrolmen sat helplessly
in their vehicle, shivering in
the near-zero cold.

The men had tempor-
arily left their car to aid a
motorist, then returned to
find themselves stranded. In
a few minutes they were
gone, their windshield wipers
had frozen to the glass ren-
dering the officers immobile.

Suddenly, a milk-truck-
shaped vehicle with a bright
yellow flasher on the roof
pulled in behind the squad
car. The driver's door opened
and out jumped a tall, thin
man dressed in a milkman's
uniform. He didn’t say a word
but quickly went about the
job at hand. ©

Within minutes, he had
cleaned the windshield and
dug away the ice rrom around
the wiper blades. Then, as
the stunned officers gave a
slight nod of appreciation,
the stranger was gone in the
maroon-colored truck with

show them how
the instruments work, and
things like that, But nor-
mally, the passengers are too
busy working to think about
anything .else. I don't even

already aboard and when I
climbed in I took a quick
glance at them and said to
this woman, ‘Hi, .. . It wasn’t
«+ it was his wife. But only
once has this happened.”

A look at Kelly's pocket
diary — with about 14,600
hours, he no longer keeps a
piers log, just a diary out-

lining flying times and per-
sonal expenses — showed the
following:

March 3 — Vancouver/
Regina/Vancouver; Vancou-
ver/Terrace; Terrace/Wil-
liams Lake; Williams Lake/
Vancouver. Total flying time
6.65 hours.

March i - ~ Vancouver/

it/recon-

make inflight

the words “Hood Samaritan
- + + helping people” em-
blazoned on the side:

Although Bill Wallace,
the Hood Samaritan, usually
leaves a calling card behind,
in this case he thought it
more appropriate to remain
an anonymous benefactor.
Bill Wallace is a convict
serving a six to 10-year
sentence for armed robbery.

This soft-spoken man of
28 is also the model for what
may be America’s most un-
usual service project. As part
of a prison work-release pro-
gram, Wallace is employed
‘by H.P. Hood, Inc. a large
Boston dairy products firm.

His job is unique: he
drives up and down Boston
streets looking for people in
trouble and helping them out.
Wallace is, in fact, a modern-
day version of the Good
Samaritan, the man in the
Biblical story who came to
the aid of a traveler who had
been robbed and left to die by
the roadside. It was-.the
Samaritan who assisted the
helpless victim, after all the
respectable people had pas-
sed him by.

Wallace begins his work-
ing day early. Before dawn
he eases his new Hood milk
truck from the parking lot of
the Massachusetts Correc-

tional Institute at Shirley and.

begins the 60-mile drive into
Boston. Soon, traffic will clog
the main arteries leading into

pit; Vv To-
tal time 6.16 hours.

April 2 — Vancouver/
SanFranciseo; San Francis-
co/Sun Valley; Sun Valley/
Vancouver. Total time 7.75
hours.

April 8 — Vancouver/
Palm Springs; Palm Springs/
Vancouver. Total time 5.65
hours.

Two of those flights
were medical evacuations for
the B.C. government, and
such flight 6ccupy about 20
per cent of the Lear's flying
time. “The government calls

on us if its own Cessna
Citations are tied up, but
iwe're called first if it’s a
head, neck or spinal injury.
"The Lear's widow door al-
lows the stretcher to fit
directly into the cabin.”

Maximum performance
take-offs are not demonstrat-
‘ed with injured passengers
aboard. Take-off thrust is
applied smoothly and the
nose is lifted just high
eenough to clear obstacles
with the proper safety mar-
gin. But if the patient is
seriously injured and time is
a factor, Kelly cruises and
descends the Lear at Mmo/
Vmo.

Kelly's favorite celebrity
passenger is singer Gordon
Lightfoot. -

“Gordie and his group

A welcome sight

To those whomeet the good ‘Hood Samaritan’

the city and the “Hood Sam-
aritan” will be on the radio-
telephone to the hovering
helicopter of WBZ radio's Joe
Green, searching out the
trouble spots.

It's almost 6 a.m. when
Wallace spots a stalled Volks:
wagen and pulls over to
investigate..A simple prob-
lem; the man is out of gas.
Reaching into the back of the
van Bill finds a red five-gallon
can. The commuter's face
lights up with surprise.

“Wow, thanks buddy,
how much do I owe you for
that?” he asks, reaching for

his wallet. -
“Oh, nothing,” replies
the Hood Samaritan. “This is

my job. If you want to thank -

somebody, call the number
on this card — the Hood Milk
@ompany.”

Back on the .read, Bilr
shakes his head aptris unable
to conceal a smile. “People
are incredulous, amazed,” he
says. “In this day and age,
very few people stop to-help
somebody else. And they find
it hard to believe that some
company would invest money
in outfitting a truck — and
that a guy would go out and

steitale Kelly explained one
procedure: roll the aircraft
almost 90° which retarding
the power to flight idle and
letting the nose fall about
15°. Then roll the wings
level, pop the spoilers and let
the airspeed build to or near
Vmo. As the aircraft des-
cends into denser air, keep.
trimming bch nose forward to’

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to the Lear Jet

Although most of the flying is
done within the Western
provinces, he spent several
weeks in 1978 flying the Lear
high over the North and
South: Pacific on a high al-
titude air sampling contract
with a U.S. university. “All
the same, the least inter-
esting part of the job is the
time I spend away from
home. It sure can play hell
with your social life.” :
Kelly's overall attitude
toward flying is expressed,
strangely enough, by ‘air
shows. He was Director of
Air Operations at the Can-
adian International Air Show
at Toronto for three years.
“That job was one way of
expressing my feeling that
those of us who make a living
from aviation should do

the entire procedure to avoid
abnormal’ G forces. It's a
non-aerobatic, almost ho-hum
procedure Kelly explained.
Great stuff, Lightfoot

said. It should be done with
him al

+ A charter. pilot flying all
over North America gets to
visit a lot of FBOs. “we take
them as we find them, I
guess. The best I've found in
the States is Combs-Gates at
Denver. In Canada, Innotech
Aviation has the most con-
sistently high standards be-
cause all the operations are
run by the same company, all
have the same 122.95 fre-
quency for calling ahead and
all have a telex link. Avitats
and Shell Aero Centres do a
good job but they don’t have
the same consistency because
they're individually oper-

ated.”

Kelly finds the variety of
flying and people the most.
interesting part of his job.

just help people.

“Eight out of 10 people
try to pay me. They figure
this is a monetary world and
you're obligated to give a few
bucks for service. Well, I get
paid a, goed salary. I don't
want to take any extra
money; it’s a personal thing
with me. But they really
don’t understand.”

Behind the driver's seat
of Bill's van are his first-aid

on a voluntary
basis for the betterment of
aviation,” he said, groping for
the right words.

“The CNIAS isa hell of a
good platform from which to
present aviation to the pub-
lic, not as a circus but as.an
educational tool. That's why
that particular air show has
such a good mix of aircraft
types.

“The air show is very
disciplined and it’s that sense
of discipline that I try to get
across to people.”

That sense of discipline
is carried through, of course,
to the charter operation,
where the Lear and its pilots
are often the passenger's
first experience with non-air-
line flying.

“Our attitude must al-
ways be to not alienate
people against chartering or
buying a business jet air-
craft,” Kelly said. “It's the
only way to keep the busi-
hess growing.”

Not dead
yet... but
where's body?

George Leyman of Tor-

onto may have suffered 13

heart attacks but he wants
his hospital to know he isn’t
dead yet.

After recovering from
his latest attack, Leyman, 51,
received a bill for the am-
bulance service addressed to
the estate of the late George

Now back at work as an
apartment superintendent,
Leyman said he was going to
put-up a sign in the elevator
saying “Please’ no flowers,
just money for the deceased.”

But his wife Joyce de-
cided the hospital should get
the point of the joke.

She telephoned to ask
where the body was and sent
an alarmed employee search-
ing through files. The clerk
finally said the hospital had
no record of which under-
taker took the body.

open; a spare tire and parts
of a jack lie nearby. Bill
changes the tire, places his
card on the windshield, and
moves on. The woman watch-
es quietly as the mysterious °
milkman journeys down the
Toad.

Shortly before 7 p.m. the
Hood milk truck eases into
the parking lot of Boston's
Faulkner Hospital School of
Nursing. Here, for thes next
three hours Bill will sit in a

kit, emergency flares, cans of
“dry-gas” and lut “4
rest of the van is filled with a
spare tire, water can, gas
can, axe, brooms, jacks, fire
extinguishers, and a wooden
bench. A tight fit, but it
works,

As Bill hes Bos-

wil
firemen, and ambulance driy-
ers.

After completing the 84-
hour Emergency Medical
Technician course, and pass-
ing a standardized national

ton on his early morning
patrol, there are phone calls
to be made. Joe Green is
patrolling the area in his
WBZ helicopter, so Wallace
tries to contact him.

“Joe...Joe... Are you
there, Joe? Any problems yet
this morning?” Like a hawk,
Bill scans the horizon as he
makes the turn onto the Bos-
ton interstate.

“There's a lady stalled
on the right-hand side about
two miles ahead of you,” Joe
Green radios back.

Bill reaches to turn on
the yellow flasher. A couple
minutes pass. There, just
ahead, a young woman is
standing in dismay by the
side of her car. The trunk is

fi at oon

the
will be considered capable of
handling any emergency they
might encounter in their
jobs.

Bill, who earned his
high-school diploma in prison,
has been doing very well in
this course; in fact, his
mid-term score was the high-
est that was recorded in the

It's almost midnight by

the time Bill Wallace reaches
‘the Shirley institution. The
69 inmates face no walls and

pre-release.center, but there
is no mistaking the stark
concrete edifice.

“It's stili a prison,” Bill-
Bays.

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