Fuzzy's Flying Page

Remembering Daniel Heligoin and Montaigne Mallet, The French Connection, who died doing what they loved best.

My Planes


  Total hours	259.0

  PIC		189.8 (plus 22.0 student solo)

  XC		 83.1 (plus 15.6 student XC)

  Dual		 61.3

  Tail Wheel	135.7

  Acro		 60.0

Own: 1997 Superdecathlon/180, 1980 Cessna 172N Superhawk, 1979 Citation I.

Checked out in: 7ECA Citabria, Super Decathlon, Cessna 152, Cessna 172, Grumman Cheetah.

Have flown: 7KCAB Citabria, 8KCAB 150-CS Decathlon, Mudry CAP 10B, Boeing 727 (sim), King Air 200, Citation V.

Took acro lessons from Montaigne Mallet, April 4, 1994.

Personal best: Barrel rolled a Boeing 727 at night, in a US Air simulator.

Group photo of CMU Fliers (219k) taken in front of the OT Aviation Hangar, which appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazzette.
Picture of me (207k) flying N50264, a Bellanca Citabria 7ECA, taken immediately after completing a loop and an aileron roll.

N5041Q, left front view (75k), a Bellanca Super Decathlon shot at Phoenix Aviation, Allegheny County Airport, Pittsburgh, PA. The plane was badly damaged when a renter split-S'ed out of an inverted dive. The pilot returned safely to AGC, even though the tail was warped and all the inspection plates were popped off.
N5041Q, left side view (148k).
N109AC, left side view (173k), an American Champion Super Decathlon (1991) parked in front of Hangar number 1 at the American Champion Aircraft factory in Rochester Wisconsin. The plane was destroyed and the pilot killed when he exceeded Vne in a dive and ripped the wings off.

I shot all of these photos, and I was the pilot unless otherwise stated.

CMU Campus (256k), taken from 2700' MSL, looking south.
Meigs field and Soldier Stadium (227k), in Chicago, looking West from 2000' over Lake Michigan. Pilot Bill Lefebvre.
The Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium (167k), in Chicago, looking West from 2000' over Lake Michigan. Pilot Bill Lefebvre.
Chicago Skyline (289k), in Chicago, looking West from 2000' over Lake Michigan. Pilot Bill Lefebvre.
Lava from Mt. Kilauea flows into the ocean (38k), causing plumes of steam to rise (28k), July 18, 2000, from a Blue Hawaiin helicopter piloted by Rich

Last updated 31-Jul-2003