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Harry and his Sweethearts
I just checked out the Swift site and the pictures look great. I know my wife would be very proud of them. She died in March 1995 after we had been married for 46 years. You can say what you want, but flying off to get married in a Swift 125, sure made it stick.
There was something
very adventerous about getting married the way we did and then flying out
to the beach and landing on it for our one week stay. I just have to tell
you, to give you a chuckle. We got so sunburned on the beach that when we
flew back the following Sunday we had to wear our bathing suits and sandles.
When we got back to Richmond, there was an Air Show going on so the tower
told me to hold over
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My name is Harry F. Asbury, CFI, and I used to
work at a flight school in Richmond Va. during the late 40s. The attachments
are of the Swift my sweetheart and I used to fly on dates, when we didn't
have anything else to do. We used the Swift to fly off to get married at
Dillion SC, on June 16, 1949. We flew to the outerbanks of North Carolina
the next day and landed on the beach to spend our honeymoon there. She soloed
in the Swift, and flew as much as she could until we left Richmond in 1951.
She liked the speed and responsiveness of the bird. I lost control, one day
with a student check out when we went into a ground loop. That was the only
thing that ever happened to me or my wife while flying that little bird.
You have that Swift listed as belonging to Mike Kirchner, Ill. now but with
a 145 in it. Must be very Swift now. Hope you like the pictures.
Harry
Echo site until intermission. We flew in circles for
twenty minuets and then cleard into RIC. When Jean taxied up to the hanger
where I was employed, I think every student I had and of course all of the
other avaiation buffs that were watching the air show were there. They greeted
us with loud cat calls when they saw that we only had bathing suits on. Jean
must have blushed from her head to her toes to have to get out of that Swift
and walk through that crowd, but they couldn't tell it because of the sunburn.
I think everyone there had something to say to us about just being married.
She was wearing a small two piece bathing suit too. One more memorial trip
I made in the Swift was from RIC to Bridgeport CT for my interview for a
job with Sikorsky Aircraft in July 1951. The funny part of the interview
was that the manager of the service department only wanted to talk about
the Swift that I flew up there in. I got the job by the way and retired from
Field Engineering in 1987, after 36 years of working in helicopters. Again,
thanks for putting the photos in the web site. I love them and it brings
back some wonderful memories of that Swift, my wife, and the
honeymoon.
