Volume 8 Number (Journal 668) May, 2015 in this issue

 
STEEN MUNTER
—Crystal Lake, IL 
Holy Cow!! Another year already? 
Lots to celebrate. Claudia and I will have our 55th 
wedding anniversary this fall unless she kicks me 
out before then. Always a possibility. Longest pro-
bation I ever heard of, but so far so good. 
15 years of retirement has flown by. I have no idea 
how I ever had time to go to work. Still fly the 
Twin Comanche between our place in Crystal Lake, 
IL and Rogers, AR on a fairly regular basis. Also 
enjoy flying a 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser that 
I and our younger son took 10 years+ to restore to 
original condition. Took it to Lockhaven, PA (the 
site of the factory both planes were built in until 
about 1972 when a flood destroyed the factory and 
production moved to Vero Beach, FL) for the annu-
al Sentimental Journey fly-in and won an award!
We were surprised and pleased that our work was 

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May, 2015 RUPANEWS 
judged best of show by folks who know the planes 
well. 
For my 75th birthday I'm getting a new L. knee....by 
the time you read this that will be old news and I'll 
be shooting hoops with my grandsons. That's the 
plan, anyway. 
It's difficult to believe I'm 75 already until I realize 
we have a son who has been retired for 2 yrs. and 
our baby has been flying for United for 19 
years.......he is currently a 737 F/O at ORD. Don't 
ask. He recently flew a trip with a Captain 4,100 
numbers junior to him. The merger has caused 
some strange side-effects and it's not over yet. I do 
enjoy hearing the inside scoop from him as to how 
it is on the Mainline nowadays, but I think that's as 
close to the day-to-day ops as I care to get. I really 
did have the best years of the career and best of all I 
realized it at the time and enjoyed it. Check in the 
mail. 
Steen
, ORD 1963-2000.