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 Post subject: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
PostPosted: 06 Mar 2018, 07:12 
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Hi All, nice to be here; I'm trying to get comfortable with semi-retirement. Spent half my life in GA (mostly night cargo) and the other half in airlines (one interview, 6 airlines ending with American) - hell of a ride! Last year I bought a super clean '59 K35 with a tired motor that is being replaced with a FREM. I have so much to learn about this aircraft so I'm all ears!! :bow:


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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I'll bet you have some good stories to tell. Welcome!


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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Night freight, Beech 18s? Tell us more! I did the night freight thing (canceled checks, early '90s) in Cessna 310s... Beech 18s would've been cooler.


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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Thanks all. Hey John, I Flew the BE-18 for about 4 years all tailwheel. The last year I mostly flew a one-of-a-kind Turbo prop that Connie Kalitta and D. Howard built. A BE-18 G model with the (6') Volpar fuselage extension, original Beech wing with 840shp Garretts on it, a Westwind pointy cargo nose and a surfboard skag on the Belly. If the fuselage wasn't so straight it would look like a LoadStar. All the BE-18s were great birds (after the spar straps installed), fun to fly and handled great as long as they were not overloaded. The P&W R985 is a super motor, only shut one down and that was because of an oil sensor crack. The P&W R-2800 on the Convair however was a different story!
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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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BTW, Who did you fly the cancelled checks for?? In the early '8os, Corporate Air out of Hartford had the connector route...?


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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I flew for U.S. Check, ‘90-93. Company was based Columbus, OH, but I flew out of Omaha. Good outfit to fly for, but hauling checks all night long seems to have dried up and gone away. When I was in college around ‘89-90 in Monroe, LA, the nightly UPS run to Jackson, MS was in an assortment of Beech 18s; started with a D18S, then alternated a G and H18. I bagged a few rides after helping load the freight. Then there were a few jumpseat rides TUL-MCI in a R-2800 powered CV-240... fun stuff!

Ain’t it crazy how Kalitta and D Howard could take a classic looking G18 and turn into such a beast!


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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Welcome Arnie!

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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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Hi Forrest and to the others that sent a welcome.

Yep, as far as I know there are no more check routes - all computerized now. I flew both the BE-18 (mail & Emery) and R2800 Convairs for Providence Airlines out of RI, each aircraft for about 3 years. In between those 2 aircraft I went out to fly with Kalitta for about 2 years (78-80) where I flew that beast 231LJ and Connie checked me out in his Lear 23 - the biggest jet he had at the time.
Glad to chat with another night time freighter, it certainly was a “unique path” to put it nicely! Did you keep flying professionally - if so where did you go?


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 Post subject: Re: Started career in BE-18, now back to Beech
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Hi Forrest and to the others that sent a welcome.

Yep, as far as I know there are no more check routes - all computerized now. I flew both the BE-18 (mail & Emery) and R2800 Convairs for Providence Airlines out of RI, each aircraft for about 3 years. In between those 2 aircraft I went out to fly with Kalitta for about 2 years (78-80) where I flew that beast 231LJ and Connie checked me out in his Lear 23 - the biggest jet he had at the time.
Glad to chat with another night time freighter, it certainly was a “unique path” to put it nicely! Did you keep flying professionally - if so where did you go?


Whoops! Time delay... yeah, I kept at it, got hired at Continental, now United, 737 captain. I keep flying and time building, thinking someday I'll be able to get a real airline job!


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We should start a forum header called the "Dog Pound" where us old has been freight hounds would hang out...

But I insist that it be a "no kill" shelter.

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Welcome!

I too flew turbine 18’s for Connie. 231LJ had already been parked, so all that were left were the Volpars. Fun flying most of the time, I spent 15 years there in the Lears and Falcons before bailing to 121.


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Welcome freight dog,
Congrats on the career and enjoying flying again. Let’s hear some stories in a thread. I’m not worthy to start the thread.
MC :popcorn: :cheers:


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Arnold, welcome to BT!
Hope your engine changes goes smoothly. :thumbup:

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