To paraphrase a line from The Lone Ranger radio series, “Return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! From out of the past comes the thundering sound of a Cessna 150…Barney flies again.”
The Golden Age of Traffic Reporting
Key Takeaways:
- The author reminisces about her early flight instructing days in the 1960s, a simpler time defined by aviation, low pay, and a close-knit airport community, amidst broader societal upheaval.
- A friend named Barney landed a pioneering job providing "eye in the sky" rush-hour traffic reports from a Cessna 150 for a radio station.
- One winter morning, Barney overslept and, unable to get airborne, had to ad-lib his live traffic report over the telephone from his apartment.
- The broadcast was humorously interrupted by an increasingly frustrated neighbor on his party line, who eventually shouted at him for monopolizing the phone.
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