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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
J. D. Huss

MO has always been somewhat of a nonconformist where government regulatory agencies are concerned. In August, 1966 he acquired his multi-engine class rating by receiving his flight training and practical test in a Champion Aircraft Corporation 7JC "Lancer" (this aircraft was a fabric-covered, two-seat tandem trainer - with fixed landing gear, no flaps, and two 90 horsepower carburetorated engines without feathering propellers). The FAA Inspector was not overjoyed when he discovered he would be conducting the flight test/one of these aircraft.
MO's first aircraft purchase was a Smith "Mini-Plane" which he kept at Piper Airport and used in his debut as an airshow pilot at local airshows. Some of these performances - (sometimes called practice sessions) were unknown to anyone who wasn't up early on Saturday morning, - took place over the runways at Piper Airport. MO currently owns a Cessna 172 (equipped with two (2) Long Range Navigation systems (LORAN) and two (2) Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for VFR flights within 100 nautical miles of Bradford's Rinkenberger Airport (BDF)) and an Engineering Research Corporation model 415C "Ercoupe" which he is restoring.
While employed by May's Flying Service and, after Marvin May's retirement, its continuation as Princeton Flying Service, MO has trained over 2,000 individuals to fly. While most of these people would learn to fly for their own pleasure, several would become Airline Captains, Corporate Pilots, Flight Department Managers, Flight School Instructors, Military Aviators, and (to his unending disgust) a Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Safety Inspector.