FARNBOROUGH 2008: Charity

Posted by admin on July 18, 2008

A top test pilot who helped coordinate the flying display at Farnborough has turned his skills these past three years toward the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF).

MAF flies supplies and relief around the world, including Derek Reeh’s new home of Kenya. When his Pilatus PC-12 lands loaded with needed supplies, sometimes the reaction is astonishment along with gratitude.” Making seven or eight stops over eight hours every day adds up. “When I joined MAF I had about 6,000 flying hours. That 6,000 in 30 years of career and 2,000 hours in the last three years.”

Until 2004 Reeh was on the SBAC flying control committee, overseeing safety of the flying display. In May 2005 he an

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