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Part One

In 1947 when the fledgling company that would become Okanagan Helicopters was beginning to take shape in BC’s Okanagan Valley, I was just taking my first tottering baby steps in the little town of Nairn on the northeast coast of Scotland. My father, who was stationed at RAF Dalcross nearby, subsequently took his small family to more exotic places—Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Singapore, Yemen—and at sixteen I followed him into the RAF where I trained as an air radar mechanic. It would be two more decades before my own history and that of Okanagan Helicopters ran in parallel. Thus, the story of the company’s early development that I have recounted in Part One of Vertical Horizons is taken, not from first-hand experience, but from both published and unpublished documents and from personal interviews with the people who were there at the time and who made it all happen.