My career in aviation started when I left school at 15 years of age and joined K.L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines in London, England as an office clerk in 1949.

In 1951 I was conscripted into the R.A.F. and served most of my time in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, South Africa.

On being demobilized in 1954 I joined B.E.A. British European Airways as a baggage tracer.

In April 1954 I joined Trans-Canada Air Lines as an office clerk.

In 1958 I transferred to the Purchases & Stores Dept, working up to Office Manager by 1962.

In 1963 I was Project Rep for the 'Cabbage Patch' project, the repairing of the DC8 which was damaged at LHR.

In 1965 I transferred to Dorval, Canada and worked as a clerk maintaining the computerized inventory records.

I transferred to the computer section in 1968, first as a programmer, ending up as a Project Leader on Inventory and Maintenance systems.

In 1972, a 9 month stint in Antigua, running the computer section of L.I.A.T. Leeward Island Air Transport, the local commuter airline serving the Caribbean. That secondment was under the auspices of CANAC, a government operated division to which both Air Canada and Canadian National Railways supplied expertise to emerging nations of the world in the transportation field.

My career with Air Canada ended in Dec 1984, when I took a severance package.

I worked, for the next 5 years, as a consultant working, at various times, with Nationair, Peoples Express, Frontier Airlines, Nordair, Alaska Airlines, Republic Airlines, Aer Lingus and Canadian Pacific Airlines.

My final year was with Execaire in Dorval who had a fleet of some 20 executive jets operated for the Bronfman empire.

In May of 1990 I moved to Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, where my wife and I are hobby potters, and enjoying all the good things in life.

My whole career was spent in the area of recording the inventory and the maintenance of aircraft units, some 42 years.