[simpits-tech] A special Visitor

[Roy Coates]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Justin Messenger wrote:

> Not long ago I had a special visitor, John Schultz. He and his mother were in Miami in April of 1960 to meet his dad, Capt. Charles Schultz who was part of the acceptance and delivery crew of my DC-8, N8274H. On the delivery flight he was a flight engineer but Captain Schultz also later flew the plane as a pilot. Captain Schultz joined Panagra in 1943 and continued with Braniff after the merger until he retired in 1974.
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> His son John Schultz, who was only 11 years old that day in Miami in 1960, finally got to get in the cockpit, in 2003! To bad the cockpit is all thats left! It was great to hear his stories about Panagra, he really knows a lot of information. He knew a lot about the DC-8 too. Today he works for FedEx.
> His website is at http://home.earthlink.net/~panagra/
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> It was so cool to have someone visit my cockpit who has a history with it:)
> Justin
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Nice one Justin - having spent many hours digging for history of my own
cockpit, I can imagine how good that felt :)

Pics, I hope ?



Roy.