Blane Totty

Married Janie Kimble in Starkville while she was working on her PhD at MSU during pilot training then took a C-141 assignment to Charleston AFB. Earned MBA while there in early 70’s. Transferred to C-5’s at Charleston but the 76th MAS moved to Dover AFB where I was squadron training officer. Most missions served Europe and Middle East with quite a few trips into Viet Nam also. Eventually accumulated 1000 hours in the Galaxy.

Blaine Totty — “Tenant Totty”

“Blaine (hereafter known as ‘Tenant Totty’) was always a promising student at Columbus. He breezed through the T-41s without incident and moved on to better and noisier things. In T-37s, Blaine gained fame as the first solo student to be caught closing the canopy while taxiing and as the solo student who risked life and tweet to salute the crew chief as he pulled out of the chocks…

Blaine will be remembered as one of the truly nice guys of 71-01 and will undoubtedly be a great success in whatever he undertakes. Good luck, ‘Tenant Totty.'”

71-01 Yearbook, page 57.