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8047  CG (Charlie) King

 



 

 




RMC Degree:  BEng (Mechanical)

Branch of the Forces:      Air Force - originally “Tech AE” - now AERE.

1969-1972:       Project Officer, Aircraft Maintenance Development Unit (AMDU), CFB Trenton, developing modifications for various CF aircraft.

25 Mar 72:        Married Lynne Mudd, a “blind date” for our 3rd year “Cedar Island Party”. She graduated from the St. Joseph School of Nursing, Hotel Dieu Hospital, in 1969.  Still married 52+ years later!!!  Did some sport parachuting with the local Canadian Sport Parachuting Association club (7 jumps!).

1972-1975:       Design Authority & Life Cycle Maintenance Manager (LCMM) - Aerial   Delivery Systems in DAES, CFHQ, Ottawa, for the CCP 60 & 100 heavy drop parachutes, ejection seat ‘chutes, fighter aircraft drag ‘chutes and personnel parachutes.  Introduced the Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System (LAPES) for the C-130 Hercules.

1975-1976:       Left the military.  We decided to start a family and remain in Ottawa.  Lynne was working as a nurse and also going to Ottawa U getting her Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNSc) degree.  I started to work in Transport Canada as an Eng 3.  Lynne was pregnant with our first child.  Sadly, our son died shortly after birth due to a massive congenital heart defect.  Lynne got her BNSc then worked as an in-service educator at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.  I wasn’t happy in Transport Canada.  Luckily, I received a call from the AERE career manager asking if I’d be interested in re-joining. 

1976-1978:       In December 1976, I re-joined and was posted to CFB Cold Lake, Alberta, 417 Sqn (the OTU for the CF-104 Starfighter) as the Aircraft Maintenance Officer (AMO) i/c Snag Recovery and Servicing.

1978-1982:       Commanding Officer of 10 Field Technical Training Unit (10 FTTU), CFB Cold Lake (4 Wing), which conducted the technical training for the CF-5   Freedom Fighter and the CF-104 Starfighter. While in Cold Lake, I was the technical member on three Boards of Inquiry, investigating CF-104 crashes. Our two children, Robin and Ryan, were born while we were in Cold Lake.  Currently, Robin is a law clerk with Gowlings in Toronto and Ryan is a senior electrical engineer with Lockheed Martin in Kanata.

1982-1985:       Posted to the CF-18 Detachment at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company  (McAir), St. Louis, MO, as the CF-18 Technical Training Officer contracting the technical training equipment and courseware development for the  CF-18 weapon system and its ongoing support and operations in Canada.

1985-1987:       Posted to Fighter Group Headquarters in North Bay, ON, as Senior Staff Officer, Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance (SSOAEM), advising the Commander Fighter Group on CF fighter aircraft maintenance and              engineering issues.  Participated as the Technical Member on several CF Fighter Squadron Tac Evals in CFB Cold Lake, CFB Bagotville, Andoya (Norway) and CFB Baden-Soellingen (Germany).

1987-1988:       Attended Canadian Forces Command and Staff College (CFCSC) in    Toronto, ON - “…the best year of my life???”

1988-1990:       Posted to the CF-18 Project Management Office (PMO CF-18), NDHQ, Ottawa, as the Deputy Project Manager and the last Project Manager of the CF-18 Capital Acquisition Project.

1990-1995:       Posted within NDHQ to DGAEM as DFTEM 2 (the Deputy CF-18 Weapon System Manager (D/WSM)) in Bldg 155, Rockcliffe (the building where old flies went to die!). In 1995, I retired from the military under the Force Reduction Program.

1996:     Back in DAEPM(FT) working on the CF-18 Weapon System Integrated Logistics Support System Redesign (ILSSR) project as a sub-contractor.

1996-2004:       Joined GasTOPS (an engineering company specializing in condition based maintenance and engine health monitoring) as the air force liaison person for the CF-18 / F404 engine and developing the GasTOPS program to achieve AS9100 quality management certification.

2004-2006:       Departed GasTOPS and back into NDHQ / DFTEM 2 / CF-18 WSM developing an ISO 9001-2000 certification program within the CF-18 WSM organization.

Aug 2006:        Retired back home to the farm in Dunnville, Southern Ontario, where my “retirement” is filled with: 

             - enjoying our three grandchildren;  

             - travelling with Lynne; 

             - restoring old British sports cars - over the years have restored a 1950    XK-120 Jaguar Open-Two-Seater (OTS), a 1967 Jaguar 340 Saloon and a 1962 MGA 1600 MKII;

               -        still playing bagpipes - currently with the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) Pipes & Drums and still affiliated with the RCMP Pipe Band in Ottawa.  Also taking lessons in piobaireachd - the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe;

               -        running to get the camera when the Lancaster from the Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope flies over our house; and

               -        trying to keep our historic stone house (built in 1875), the barn (built in 1878) and the grounds in reasonable shape, which occupies most of my time.

Working & related highlights include:

1974:     as LCMM for Aerial Delivery Systems - flying in the back of a C-130 fitted with JATO “bottles” while conducting LAPES trails in a “simulated short extraction zone” with 435 TAL Sqn at Namao, Edmonton;

1978:     as 417 Sqn AMO - participating in Exercise Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Prior to the exercise, flying in the back seat of a CF-104 from Cold Lake to Las Vegas and back for the exercise planning meeting; and

1988:     while at CFCSC, Toronto - visiting the Canadian National Vimy Memorial and playing the pipes at the near-by Canadian War Graves Cemetery

Piping & related highlights include:

2012:     performing with the HRPS Pipes & Drums in Apeldoorn and piping at the Canadian War Cemeteries in Groesbeek and Holten, Holland;

2018:     performing with the RCMP Pipes, Drums and Dancers at the 29th Shanghai Tourism Festival and at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, China;

2019:     performing with the HRPS Pipes & Drums at the Hamburg Polizei Show and piping at the Hamburg Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany;

2019:     performing with the RCMP Pipes & Drums at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (REMT) in Edinburgh, Scotland; and

2020-2023 - co-authoring, with RCMP Chief Superintendent (retired) Rod Booth, a piping music book entitled “Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Maintiens le Droit

        - celebrating the 150th anniversary of the RCMP.

Family & related highlights include:

         -   recently celebrated 52 years of marriage with my wife Lynne.  She has a great sense of humour that has been well exercised over those 52 years!!!

         -   both our children are enjoying married life.  Robin, her husband Jay and son Charlie live nearby;

         -   we are blessed with three active and happy grandchildren;

         -   volunteering with the local Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and the No. 6 RCAF Dunnville Museum; and

         -   we have the good fortune to be living on our farm (I’m 4th generation on this farm) in the country away from the traffic and the “madding crowds”.

Lynne & I back in the early 2000’s with

Ryan, Robin and our English Bull Terrier,  Rocky”.

 

Lynne & I back in 1975 with the Jaguar  XK-120 that I restored  



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