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 article is a nostalgic recollection of the author's life as a flight instructor in the 1960s, depicting a simpler time at the airport with a close-knit community of aviation enthusiasts.
- It recounts a memorable anecdote about her friend, Barney, who landed a pioneering "eye in the sky" traffic reporting job for a radio station.
- One morning, after oversleeping, Barney was forced to ad-lib his live traffic report over a party line telephone, leading to a comical interruption from an increasingly irate co-user of the line.
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