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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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My first flight was as a boy with my father when I was 8 years old in 1927 with a WWI barnstormer in a WWI twin engine biplane bomber—open cockpit flown by a pilot named W. Chamberlain. By 19401 was teaching aviation electrical and A/C instruments in Chicago CSAI.
Then to Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney and working with many airframe engines and associated air equipment manufacturers. I worked directly for and at Wright Field Air Corps at Dayton, Ohio, primarily with the foreign aircraft test comparisons unit at ASTB at Vandalia. I also worked with many of the actual aircraft and associated equipment now at the Smithsonian Institution, and Udvar-Hazy Center as well as at the museums at Dayton, Ohio.
I had hands on experience with and see them as old friends.
I traveled extensively around the world for service work and technical problem resolution for many organizations.
I spent extensive time in such places as Edwards and Palmdale Air Force Bases and many others. I also worked for the US Navy
I spent several years with William P. Lear for field testing and monitoring field performance. That included the position of reliability manager for space program instruments including the Space Shuttle.
The list of people I met and worked with reads like a Who's Who of aviation, starting with Orville Wright and Charles Lindburgh and many others far too extensive to list and describe the association herein.
Currently, I have been in contact with the Smithsonian Curator of all WWII fighter aircraft, Mr. Russ Lee. He wishes to have some WWII foreign fighter aircraft instruments I have that came out of actual aircraft now in the museum. He also noted I may have knowledge of old aircraft and history he would like to know of. I plan a trip to Washington, D. C. this summer to donate these instruments.
Please contact me if you desire endless history of the 50years of the military air organizations I have had the pleasure of serving.
At the age of 85, I am "not done yet".