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Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:24 pm
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.
Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:44 am
Sounds like a true aviator Bill. Sorry to hear of his passing