Garry Brown:
CLASS OF 1956
Crescent Heights High SchoolClass of 1956
Calgary, AB
Ryerson Institute of TechnologyClass of 1960
Toronto, ON
Garry's Story
Went to Ryerson Institute in Toronto to take Aeronautical Technology. After working at odd jobs a friend and I rode our motorcycles from Calgary in the middle of winter through Oregon and Nevada to California, then across the southern states to Florida. By then I had replaced the pistons twice and needed a third set and the friend's bike was leaking oil badly,so we sold them and spent the money on a trip to Jamaica. Arrive back in Canada broke so worked on the railroad out of Union Station for the summer. Back in Alberta spent some time making nickel blanks in Fort Saskatchewan before joining the air force. Spent thirty years as an aerospace engineer looking after aircraft and related jobs. Started out right off basic training on a Voodoo squadro...Expand for more
n at Comox, then after taking a 9 month course in Ontario, returned to Comox on a Neptune squadron. Next posting was in Ottawa as the technical manager for the Canadian Hercules aircraft followed by a posting to Trenton as the staff officer for aircraft and engine maintenance. After a year at Command and Staff College in Toronto I became head of the fixed wing aircraft maintenance at Namao in Edmonton. Following three years as the CF technical liason officer with the USAF at Wright-Patterson in Ohio, I spent 7 years as the chief maintenance instructor on the Aurora aircraft in Greenwood, N.S. The final 4 years were spent in the General Safety office in NDHQ, Ottawa. Retired to the west coast and joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary. Still doing that.
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