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Art Pfister passed away Monday at 96. Art was a friend of mine, he had a smile like a toothpaste ad. The local paper says he was a fighter pilot and instructor for the Ferry Command at Love field in Dallas, a few blocks from where I was born. He told me he had flown C-46's over Burma. He moved to Aspen and bought a ranch just outside town. "I skied every day" Art said, "I loved it". One day in 1954 he met a pilot even better than he was, Betty Hass. She had been a Wasp, owned and flew the P-39 that is in the new Smithsonian, flew airline DC-3s and especially helicopters. I had the privilege of giving her a Spitfire flight. She came to Oshkosh a few years ago and turns out she and Chuck Yeager are old friends. She and Art have 3 children. Art also was a co-founder of one of our four ski areas, Buttermilk Mt., which is probably the finest mountain to learn to ski on that I have seen. If you land on runway 33 in Aspen, your are turning right base about over their home and final is over the bottom of Buttermilk.
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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK
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