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  Cheated Death Again By Jim Lamb Back in the late ‘70s, I was living in Wichita, Kansas, as an instructor pilot in the KC-135. Wichita was the home of Cessna, Beechcraft, and Learjet, along with twenty airports within twenty miles. For a while, I was conducting simulator instruction during the evening shift. This allowed me to work on my civilian instructor rating during the day. One day, I flew a short mission in the tanker in the morning on a nice day, except for the columns of smoke from farmers burning off their wheat fields. I wanted to get to my credit union in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Cathryn’s dad set us up with the Phillips 66 Credit Union. I was buying a new car. I could drive a big “L” shaped drive, it would be 2 ½ hours. I had flown there in rental Cessna 152s  before, and it is about an hour flight. My friend, Bill Holroyd, whom I had first met in a simulator, had a half interest in a Piper Cherokee 140. He had a civilian instructor rating. The plane had recently f
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  Jim's Motor Pool March 2022 [updates in brackets] In late 2009, I wrote two articles in my Porsche Club of America’s newsletter, Der Wirbelsturm (German for swirling wind, my region is called Hurricane, get it?).  The first was about a fictional Porsche minivan prototype and I followed that with an article called “Confessions of Car Guy - Mach 1 to Minivan.” With the help of my insurance company’s documents, I numbered my vehicles up through #30. I’m now at #32 [now #38]. I go to meetings regularly where fellow car guys help each other with our addiction. It’s not like AA, it’s called PCA. That article was one page, so in this blog is the rest of the story. I have four [two] vehicles in my motor pool now. This is about how I got here.  Introduction Jim Lamb's Origins I grew up in the military as an only child, therefore I was a “military brat.” My birth announcement said I was “The Little Aviator.” I did Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Air Explorers. I earned the highest NR
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