Hi, and welcome to my website.
My name is John and I was born in
Bermuda
in 1956.
In 1958 we moved to
Curaçao,
then to
Aruba
in 1960, and back to
Curaçao
from 1961 until 1968.
In early 1968 we moved to
Canada,
and I grew up in
Toronto
(Etobicoke)
and
Sudbury,
both in
Ontario.
When I left school, I got a job as an aircraft mechanic for a small commuter airline in
northern Ontario
called
NorOntair
(see
pictures)
which flew
Twin Otters,
initially operating out of
Sudbury
and then
Timmins...
and no, I never met
Shania.
During my above time as an aircraft mechanic, although the Twin Otter was my main responsibility as an aircraft mechanic, the following are also aircraft that we had, and that I was an aircraft mechanic on:
In 1974 I joined the air branch of the
Canadian Armed Forces
(also referred to as the Canadian Forces, but what is now the
Royal Canadian Air Force,
and the following are places where I was stationed at:
I retired early from the
Canadian Armed Forces
& moved back to
Bermuda
in 1990, to start a second career in
IT
...as there's not much call for
hunting Soviet submarines
on civvie street.
I was in
Bermuda
for more than 31 years, working in
IT
for various companies, including 13 years with IBM Bermuda (a division of
IBM Canada)
servicing (repairing)
ATM
cash machines.
Although in the 1990s I had a part-time job flying a local
Bell JetRanger.
taking people on helicopter tours around
Bermuda.
But the helicopter was sold in 1998 due to no business, and I spent the remaining decades in
Bermuda
flying a desk
.
I retired in August 2021, having reached age 65, and as it was too expensive to retire in
Bermuda
(according to some sources,
Bermuda
is the
most-expensive place in the world to live,
I relocated back to
Canada,
and am living now in
Burlington,
Ontario,
Canada.
That's me in the left pic at the top in the 1990s... Captain John - Bermuda Helicopters Ltd. (in civilian flightsuit, NOT military flightsuit), and me today.
That's about it for me...
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on civvie street.
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