Fwd: DELTA'S OLDEST LIVING PILOTS IN 2023

[Ralph "Trapper" Trapaga]

Anybody flown with any of these guys?

Ralph "Trapper" Trapaga

165 Turnberry Cir

Fayetteville, GA  30215

H: 770-631-8272

C: 678-571-9595

DELTA'S OLDEST LIVING PILOTS 2023

My Delta Friends,

Each year I compile a list of Delta's Oldest Living Pilots, which includes ALL living pilots from ANY airline that is now shown on Delta's Family Tree schematic (attached below).

This is the FINAL list for 2023 and is attached below in MS Excel format and is current as of TODAY,  December 31, 2023 -- only...!!! 

This list is created from various sources that provide each pilot's date of birth.  The age of each person increases by one year on their day of birth using a spreadsheet formula --- so the December 31 list is correct for today only...!!!!  

There are two lists of the same information below;  first: the NAMES list, is sorted alphabetically, and the second, the AGE List, is sorted by Date of Birth.  Each list includes, at the beginning, the 61 names of the Oldest Pilots of 2023 who died during 2023. 

Due to privacy concerns I will NOT PUBLISH the pilot's Date of Birth, only the month of birth and the pilot's age - as of the particular DATE of this report -- which is stated at the top of the report.  But to compile this report accurately I need each pilot's exact Date of Birth in the data base.  There are 854 names on this years list but 61 of these passed away during 2023, slightly over 7 %.  Their names are highlighted in Yellow and are listed at the beginning of each report.  The 2022 Oldest Pilot list had 647 names!   Thus the 2024 Oldest Pilot List may hold more than 1000 names if this growth continues.

If you know Spouse names for any of those not shown, please click Reply and send me that information.  If any pilot shown passes away during 2024 they will be highlighted in Yellow with their date of death shown in next year's report.
 
I arbitrarily determined several years ago that a good age for inclusion on this list was the calendar year the pilot reached the age of 86 and the 2023 list is now as complete as I can make it.   For the year 2023 any living pilot from any of the companies now on Delta's Family Tree with a date of birth of 1937 or earlier should be included.  The list is a work-in-progress so help me make it grow, in size and accuracy.

If you know of a pilot whose name is missing and should be included, please send me that pilot's FULL name, Spouse's name, the pilot's Date of Birth and Date of Hire and the pilot's ORIGINAL airline company --- or as much of this as you know.  If the spouse is deceased, please include that information with the spouse's name.

Let's celebrate Delta's Oldest Living Pilots again-and-again.  Send them a Birthday Card or an email at the beginning of their month of birth.  That's close enough to their birthday for us old folks.

As you can see this list has grown tremendously with all the original company pilots included.  For 2023 there were over 240 just original Delta pilots who were added to the list plus all the others now on Delta's Family Tree.  Look for a much longer list early in 2024.  But this is the list you want to be on before getting on that Other List we see so often..!!

Please FORWARD this email with the attachments to all of your Delta friends as I only have a limited number of email addresses.  Let us insure that everyone ON this list receives a copy OF this list..!!!

Thank you for your help.

Stay safe out there.

Dave

David L. Roberts
Captain, MD-11, ATL (Ret.)
12080 Brookfield Club Drive
Roswell, GA 30075-1259
    404-273-4514  -  Cell
 Email: robe...@mindspring.com

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[Ben Lache]

I fly with John Fluerent (189) on this list almost every day I’m home and the weather is calm, it’s hard to keep up with him in his super light RV8, we go down to a field just south of lake Ashby and “smoke beef” as he calls it aka give the cows some PTSD after a couple of rolls and a loop he’ll head back. 

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On Jan 1, 2024, at 22:21, Ralph "Trapper" Trapaga <trapp...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Ben Lache]

[Greg Reese]

You were sucked so bad we couldn’t tell. 

Thanx, Greg

On Jan 10, 2024, at 6:04 PM, Ben Lache <bilac...@gmail.com> wrote:



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Flying off John Fluerent tonight, that’s not Jesus on the belly, first pair of tits i ever saw as a kid!

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On Jan 2, 2024, at 07:16, Ben Lache <bilac...@gmail.com> wrote:

I fly with John Fluerent (189) on this list almost every day I’m home and the weather is calm, it’s hard to keep up with him in his super light RV8, we go down to a field just south of lake Ashby and “smoke beef” as he calls it aka give the cows some PTSD after a couple of rolls and a loop he’ll head back. 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/falconrv-list/47DCFB2E-0441-4ABA-8504-26A056FE63D0%40gmail.com.