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Glenn’s Review of Travels with Puff

By Glenn Norman On March 20, 2013 · Add Comment
Travels with Puff
On January 1st, 1967, I woke up with the worst hangover of my young life and realized I was well on my way to alcoholism – unless I came up with a goal … a dream … an impossible quest, if you like. The only problem was, I couldn’t think of anything. So I [...]
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Richard Bach’s new book !

By admin On March 9, 2013 · Add Comment
Video by Michelle and Glenn, announcing Richard Bach’s latest book to appear March 19th, 2013 !
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TTDY #27 – Bach’s Invitational Cross-Country Adventure – Finale

On September 19, 2012 By Glenn Norman
August 8th, 1971. This was the day that changed our lives forever. Our now, four-plane formation flew south and a little west out of Oshkosh, which was pretty much empty by the time we left. By now The Invitational Cross-Country Adventure “trio” had evolved into quite a nice, tight-flying group, and Stu added his nimble [...]
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TTDY #26 – Bach’s Invitational Cross-Country Adventure – Part Six

On September 18, 2012 By Glenn Norman
The EAA’s Annual Convention & Fly-In (or “Air Venture” as it’s known these days) is the largest gathering of aircraft in the world. When Bach’s “Invitational Cross-Country Adventure” flew in to Oshkosh, Wisconsin in August of ’71, the convention had only recently re-located from its previous home at Rockford, Illinois. The reason was easy to [...]
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Me & Richard on the set of "Nothing By Chance" in 1973

On Richard’s Crash…

On September 17, 2012 By Glenn Norman
We’ve been trying to find a moment in time to get this badly-neglected web site up and running again (and many thanks to Francois Dumas for keeping it alive), but with so many projects on the go, achieving that has been near-impossible. However, recent events demand that we get WhyFly back “in the air,” so [...]
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Changes again

On July 31, 2012 By Francois Dumas
HAH! You were expecting us to give up, weren’t you!? Well, SORRY……. we won’t. So we’re now working at setting up WhyFly differently once again……. and hopefully more active and more interesting too. That’s the goal! What we’re also doing is integrating a little shop. We are running on fumes with the site for [...]
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Scott Burris

Wildlife

On January 15, 2012 By Scott Burris
On a cool, spring day, my four legged companion, Lola and I walked along the north shore of the Fraser River together, not too far from where it empties into the sound.  I had been here a dozen times before but this is the first time I brought her along.  As soon as we got [...]
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TTDY # 25 – Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Five

On December 23, 2011 By Glenn Norman
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Episode #25)   “Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Five”   By Glenn Norman   When we awoke on the morning of August 5th, 1971, it was to discover that – after four days of barely flyable weather – the sky had finally cleared and our route to the [...]
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Glenn Norman

We’re just not giving up !

On December 23, 2011 By Glenn Norman
…. aka The Return of WhyFly – Again Glenn asked me to post these NEW articles for you, so I’ll shut up from here and leave the stage to him. Enjoy ! I can’t believe it’s been ten months since the last episode of “Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear.” Michelle and I have been frantically [...]
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We’re back… sort of !

On October 15, 2011 By Francois Dumas
To all those who kept coming back, wondering what happened, THANK YOU. To all those visiting here for the first time, maybe just curious….. welcome! Yes, we’ve been ‘dormant’ for almost a year. NOT what we had envisaged 2 years ago, and not what we wanted. But lets face it, ‘life’ sometimes takes on a [...]
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Husband, Father, Friend and Aviator Glenn Matthews Passed Away

On September 26, 2011 By Francois Dumas
It is with sadness in our hearts that we must inform our readers of yet another one of history’s great Canadian aviators passing away last Friday, September 23rd, and exchanging this earthly existence for that place where they really belong: the sky. Glenn Norman posted the article below on Facebook and we’ll have it on [...]
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Truly awesome footage from a helicopter

On May 17, 2011 By Francois Dumas
I hope you can stream full-screen 1080 HD video on your internet link. If you can, you’ll agree with me that this is one of the most awesome places on earth and one of the most wonderful ways of showing it! The 10 minute video is showing you the Tre Cime, the most famous rock [...]
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Flying Through ‘My Mountains’

On February 26, 2011 By Francois Dumas
Through the wonderful ‘Facebook’ list of friends I stumbled onto a video depicting the flying that I have been doing most. And no, I am not a ‘normal’ student pilot, as you will see. Most start flying in a Cessna 150 or similar, preferably in nice weather and over flat fields. I, on the other [...]
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Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Episode #24) “Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Four”

On February 26, 2011 By Glenn Norman
In Episode #24: Richard Bach’s “Invitational Cross Country Adventure” creeps on across Pennsylvania, and Glenn finally gets to fulfill a dream he’s had since starting to fly.
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Ode to an old Aviator

On February 9, 2011 By Francois Dumas
WhyFly is about the love of flying, and hence, about emotions that go with it. A few months ago Nina and I found ourselves on a small rural airfield just north of San Francisco, waiting to meet an old aviator to show us around the incredible collection of old aircraft stored on and flying from [...]
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From the Editor

On February 6, 2011 By Glenn Norman
Okay, folks. Don’t faint, but – yes – that is a new episode of “Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear” you see posted here today. As I stated back on Christmas Eve – WhyFly is far from dead, and the only reason for the sudden dearth of new material was/is an opportunity to create and produce [...]
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Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (Episode #23) “Bach’s Invitational Cross Country Adventure – Part Three”

On February 6, 2011 By Glenn Norman
In Episode #23: Richard Bach’s “Invitational Cross Country Adventure” is quickly turning into an exercise in survival. Glenn & Michelle appear to be out of the trip due to a failed brake cable, but Bach has an old barnstormers’ trick up his sleeve.
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A Seafire at Oshkosh

On February 3, 2011 By Francois Dumas
Maybe not what we your regularly (tongue-in-cheek) publish on WhyFly, but someone pointed me to this little video of a Seafire and its restorer/owner at Oshkosh. Being an old Spitfire fan myself, I just could not resist to share this man’s enthusiasm and knowledge for and of the old lady. I hope you’ll enjoy it [...]
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Letter From The Editor

On December 24, 2010 By Glenn Norman
Happy Holidays to all our loyal, Why Fly visitors from Michelle Goodeve and me. Right off the top, our sincere thanks to Francois Dumas for keeping Why Fly alive (both technically and content-wise). And right after that – sincere apologies for the overly-long delay in getting Why Fly really moving again. As I explained in [...]
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Happy Holidays !!!

On December 22, 2010 By Francois Dumas
Although things have gone quiet a bit lately, alright MORE than a bit, we are still very much here and preparing for a more lively 2011! We’ll be getting there, for sure Meanwhile, Nina, my dear wife of many decades and myself would like to wish all of you a wonderful Holiday Season and are [...]
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Interview With Michelle

On December 13, 2010 By Francois Dumas
Our Editor-at-Large will surely forgive me for posting this short message, but I simply could not let it pass. Our own Michelle was Mrs. Avery in another life, the famous teacher in the also famous tv series Degrassi Junior High. And this weekend the ‘Agony Booth’ website posted an in-depth interview with her that I [...]
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