Very astute reasoning, and the name problems persist to this day because
half the world issues us credit cards and store charge cards and drivers
licenses using one spelling, and the financial end of things uses the other.
The name is Henriques; always has been Henriques. I've had to switch it back
and forth all my life to try and compensate for who ever was calling me what
at
what time and for what purpose. Every time we tried changing it to
Henriques and leaving it that way, it would cause problems with our cards so
we finally just gave up
on it and allowed it either way.
Just to give you some idea of how confusing this can be, I can tell you that
I am sitting here now looking at my Commercial and my CFI. My CFI reads
Henrique, and my Commercial plainly reads Henriques.......and THAT'S just
the FAA!!!!! :-)
As for the Fellowship, it was what it was and nothing more; a group of
fine people with a common interest in demonstration flight safety, all
members by special invitation only.

The IFPF never been presented in any other light other than what it
was....an
honor fraternity .
There is however, a close reference with another aviation organization, and
that would be the Combat Pilots Association of the United States. Both our
organizations are long gone, but anyone searching through the CPA official
magazines "Join Up" will find reference there to the Fellowship, and also
reference there to me personally as first the Maryland State Representative,
and then the Eastern Regional Director of CPA. I'm not sure where these
references can be found. I believe I've seen some sources for Join Up on the
web. Perhaps a letter to Steve Ritchie would produce further information, as
Steve was a member of both the Fellowship and served as President of the
Combat Pilots Association.
Organizations like the IFPF and CPA unfortunately come and go in this world
without much fanfare.

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot; CFI; Retired
dhenriquestrashatearthlinktrashdotnet
(take out the trash :-)
"Michael" wrote in message
oups.com...
And you don't even have the experience to know that the database only
contains
pilots who have current medicals. It doesn't contain former pilots.

I don't know what database you are using, but I suggest you try using
the one the FAA maintains.

http://162.58.35.241/aadatabase/login.asp

It most certainly does contain former pilots - even ones who haven't
flown for decades. There is also no cutoff date and no requirement to
hold a current medical.

What a ****storm this has caused. Truly, it makes me wonder if anyone
here knows how to do an elementary google search.

First off, did any of you actually look at the Alexis Park Inn site?
Did you notice that when people addressed Dudley, they spelled his last
name Henrique, without a terminal s? Google groups search is your
friend. If you go back far enough, you will discover that Dudley
changed the way he spells his name online. He spells it Henriques now,
but the spelling he used a few years ago was Henrique, and the middle
initial was A. Clearly the same person, since the references to the
IFPF remain the same. He appears in the airman database as Dudley
Arthur Henrique. This is a real person who really exists - it's not
rocket science.

What's more, given that he produced all sorts of IFPF documents for
Jay's web site, we can be pretty certain that he is who he says he is,
or at least knew that person well. It's not like those documents, or
copies of them, could be found anywhere. The very obscurity of the
organization proves this. If you wanted to find some documents
traceable to the IFPF, how would you do it? Again, google is your
friend. A search turns up the full name of the organization in
thousands of hits - but every one of them is Dudley's signature (other
than the Alexis Park Inn site). There is not one single hit in any
other context. How would someone who was pretending to be Dudley
unearth these documents? Nobody has copies. The organization is so
obscure that it's not mentioned or linked to by any aviation
organization ANYWHERE on the web. Nobody unconnected with the
organization would have any way of getting his hands on these
documents, originals or copies.

BTW - if you have even basic google skills, you can figure out who I am
with relative ease. Asking one of the many people here who know me is
cheating.

Michael