Interesting Resume (V Long)

A pilot friend sent me this. It's probably already made the rounds, but I
hadn't seen it before. Sorry if it's a repeat.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America


JOHN LEAR ON JOHN LEAR.... A MUST-READ FOR EVERY PILOT AND ASPIRING
AVIATOR - 9/9/2004

One of the anguishes of advancing age is losing old friends. The upside
of that, though, is that I get to tell the story my way.

I learned to fly at Clover Field in Santa Monica when I was 14. However
before I got to get in an actual airplane Dad made me take 40 hours of
Link with Charlie Gress. I can´t remember what I did yesterday but I
guarantee
you I could still shoot a 90 degree, Fade-out or Parallel radio range
orientation.

When I turned 16 I had endorsements on my student license for an Aero
Commander 680E and Cessna 310.

I got my private at 17 and instrument rating shortly thereafter. The
Lockheed 18 Lodestar was my first type rating at age 18. I went to work
for my father and brother flying copilot on a twin beech out of Geneva
Switzerland after I got out of high school. Dad was over there trying to
peddle radios to the European airlines.

However just after I turned 18 and got my Commercial I was showing off
my aerobatic talents in a Bucker Jungmann to my friends at a Swiss boarding
school I had attended. I managed to start a 3 turn spin from too low an
altitude and crashed. I shattered both heels and ankles and broke both
legs in 3 places. I crushed my neck, broke both sides of my jaw and lost all
of
my front teeth. I managed to get gangrene in one of the open wounds in my
ankles and was shipped from Switzerland to the Lovelace Clinic in
Albuquerque where Randy Lovelace made me well.

When I could walk again I worked selling pots and pans door to door in
Santa Monica. In late 1962 Dad had moved from Switzerland to Wichita to
build the Lear Jet and I went to Wichita to be work in Public relations
until November of 1963 about 2 months after the first flight when I moved
to Miami and took over editing an aviation newspaper called Aero News.

I moved the newspaper to El Segundo in California and ran it until it
failed. I then got a job flight instructing at Progressive Air Service in
Hawthorne, California. From there I went to Norman Larson Beech in Van
Nuys flight instructing in Aircoupes.

In the spring of 1965 I was invited by my Dad back to Wichita to get
type rated in the model 23 Learjet. I then went to work for the executive
aircraft division of Flying Tigers in Burbank who had secured a dealership
for the Lear.

In November of 1965 my boss Paul Kelly crashed number 63 into the
mountains at Palm Springs killing everybody on board including Bob
Prescotts 13 years old son and 4 of the major investors in Tigers. I took
over his
job as President of Airjet charters a wholly owned subsidiary of FTL and
flew
charters and sold Lears. Or rather tried to sell them. It turns out that I
never managed to sell one Learjet in my entire life.

In March of 1966 2 lear factory pilots Hank Beaird, Rick King and
myself set 17 world speed records including speed around the round the
world, 65
hours and 38 minutes in the first Lear Jet 24. Shortly after that flight I
got canned from Tigers and moved to Vegas and started the first 3rd level
airline in Nevada, Ambassador Airlines. We operated an Aero Commander and
Cherokee 6 on 5 stops from Las Vegas to LAX. This was about the time
Hughes moved to Las Vegas and I was doing some consulting work for Bob and
Peter
Maheu.

The money man behind Ambassador was Jack Cleveland who I introduced to
John Myers in the Hughes organization. Cleveland and Myers tried to peddle
the 135 certificate to Hughes without success and Jack ended up selling
Howard those phony gold mining claims you all may remember. I went back to
Van Nuys and was flying Lear charter part time for Al Paulson and Clay
Lacy at California Airmotive, the Learjet distributor.

That summer I started a business called Aerospace Flight Research in
Van Nuys were I rented aircraft to Teledyne to flight test their Inertial
Guidance Systems. We had a B-26, Super Pinto and Twin Beech. I think we
lasted about 4 months.

I then went to work for World Aviation Services in Ft. Lauderdale
ferrying the Cessna O2 FAC airplane from Wichita, fresh of the assembly
line to Nha Trang in Viet Nam with fellow QB Bill Werstlein. We were under
the
4440th ADG Langley VA. and hooked up with a lot of other military pilots
ferrying all manner and types of aircraft.

Our route was Wichita to Hamilton, Hickam, Midway, Wake, Guam, Clark
and then in country. The longest leg was Hamilton to Hickam an average of 16
hours, no autopilot, no copilot, and one ADF. We also had 3 piddle packs.
Arriving in Nha Trang we would hitch a ride to Saigon and spend 3 days
under technical house arrest, each trip, pay a fine for entering the country
illegally, that is being civilians and not coming through a port of entry,
catch an airline up to Hong Kong for a little R and R and straight back to
Wichita for another airplane. I flew this contract for 4 years.

During some off time in 1968 I attempted to ferry a Cessna 320 from
Oakland to Australia with the first stop in Honolulu. About 2 hours out
from Oakland I lost the right engine and had no provisions for dumping fuel.
I
went down into ground effect (T effect for you purists) and for 3 hours
and 21 minutes flew on one engine about 25 feet above the waves and made it
into Hamilton AFB after flying under the Golden Gate and Richmond bridges.
An
old friend Nick Conte, was officer of the day and gave me the royal
treatment.
Why did I go into Hamilton instead of Oakland? I knew exactly where the O
club was for some much needed refreshment.

In September of 1968 between 0-2 deliveries I raced a Douglas B-26
Invader in the Reno Air Races. It was the largest airplane ever raced at
Reno, and I placed 5th in the Bronze passing one Mustang. It was reported
to me after the race by XB-70 project pilot Col. Ted Sturmthal that when I
passed the P-51, 3 fighter pilots from Nellis committed suicide off the
back of the grandstands. In the summer of 1970 I helped Darryl Greenamyer
and
Adam Robbins put on the California 1000 air race in Mojave California.
That´s the one where Clay Lacy raced the DC-7.

I flew a B-26 with Wally McDonald. I then started flying charter in an
Aero Commander and Beech Queen Air for Aero Council a charter service out
of Burbank. They went belly up about 3 months later and I went up to Reno to
work for my Dad as safety pilot on his Lear model 25. After my Dad fired
me I was personally escorted to the Nevada/California border by an ex-Los
Angeles police detective who worked for Dad and did the muscle work.

I went back down to Van Nuys and was Chief Pilot for Lacy Aviation and
was one of the first pilot proficiency examiners for the Lear Jet. In the
summer of 1973 I moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia as Chief Pilot and Director
of Operations for Tri Nine Airlines which flew routes throughout Cambodia
for Khmer Akas Air.

I flew a Convair 440 an average of 130 hours a month. We had unlimited
quantities of 115/145 fuel and ADI and were able to use full CB-17 power
(which was 62" for any of you R-2800 aficionados). In November of 1973 I
moved to Vientianne, Laos and flew C-46´s and Twin Otters for Continental
Air Services Inc. delivering guns and ammo to the Gen. Vang Pao and his
CIA supported troops.

We got shot down one day and when I say we, Dave Kouba was the captain.
We were flying a twin otter and got the right engine shot out. Actually
the small arms fire had hit the fuel line in the right strut and fuel was
streaming out back around the tail and being sucked into the large cargo
opening in the side of the airplane and filling the cockpit with a fine mist
of jet fuel.

I held the mike in my hands, "Should I call Cricket and possibly blow
us up or...?" (Some of you may remember "Cricket"... "This is Cricket on
guard with an air strike warning to all aircraft".)

VBut Davy found us a friendly dirt strip and we were back in the air
the next day. When the war came to an end in 1973 I moved back to Van Nuys
and
started flying Lears for Lacy again until October when I went up to
Seattle and sat in on a Boeing 707 ground school for Air Club International
on
spec.

V3 weeks later I ended up in the left seat of the 707 with a total of 8
hours in type. Air Club begat Aero America and we flew junkets out of
Vegas for the Tropicana and Thunderbird Hotels. I left Aero having not been
fired and in the summer of 1975 I was Director of Ops for Ambassador
Airlines 2
flying 707 junkets also out of Vegas. After that airline collapsed I moved
to Beirut, Lebanon in September of 1975 and flew 707´s for 2 years for
Trans Mediterranean Airways a Lebanese cargo carrier.

It was a very interesting job in that they had 65 stations around the
world and you would leave Beirut with a copilot that had maybe 200 hours
in airplanes and fortunately a first rate plumber and off you´d go around
the
world. My favorite run was Dubai to Kabul, Afghanistan with a stop in
Kandahar. Kabul is a one way strip, land uphill and take off downhill, it
was 6000 foot elevation with no navaids.

During those 2 years I made many round the world trips and many over
the pole trips. In 1977 I moved back to Vegas and was Director of Operations
for Nevada Airlines flying DC-3´s and Twin Beech´s to the Canyon. In
September
of 77 I was called to Budapest for another CIA operation flying 707´s
loaded with arms and ammo to Mogadishu.

Leaving Budapest then refueling in Jeddah we flew radio silence down
the Red Sea trying to avoid the MiGs based in Aden, whose sole purpose on
earth was to force us down. The briefing was simple. If you guys get into
trouble DON´T CALL US. Back to Vegas in December of that year I was hired as
Chief
Pilot for Bonanza Airlines 2 operating DC-3´s and a Gulfstream 1 from Vegas
to Aspen.

After that airline collapsed I was hired by Hilton Hotels to fly their
Lear 35 A. In my spare time I flew part time for Dynalectron and the EPA
on an underground nuke test monitoring program. I flew their B-26, OV-10,
Volpar Beech and Huey helicopter. I also flew the Tri Motor Ford part time
for Scenic Airlines. In 1978 my Dad passed away and left me with one
dollar, which incidentally, I never got.

In 1980 I ran for the Nevada State Senate district 4. I lost miserably
only because I was uninformed, unprepared and both of my size 9 triple E´s
were continually in my mouth.

I got fired from Hilton shortly after that and moved to Cairo, Egypt to
fly for Air Trans another CIA cutout. After the Camp David accords were
signed in 1979 each country, Egypt and Israel were required to operate 4
flights a week into the others country. Of course, El Al pilots didn´t mind
flying into Cairo but you could not find an Egyptian pilot that would fly
into Tel Aviv. So an Egyptian airline was formed called Nefertiti Airlines
with me as chief pilot to fly the 4 flights a week into Tel Aviv. On our off
time we flew subcontract for Egyptair throughout Europe and Africa. All
this, of course was just a cover for our real missions which was all kinds
of nefarious gun running throughout Europe and Africa which we did in our
spare time.

And now that our beloved 40th president has passed on I can tell you
that in fact (with my apologies to Michael Reagan) the October Surprise was
true. The October surprise for those of you that don´t remember happened
during
October of 1980 when Reagan and Bush were running against Carter and
Mondale George Bush was flown in a BAC 111 one Saturday night to Paris to
meet
with the Ayatollah Khomeini. Bush offered the Khomeini a deal whereby if he
would delay the release of the hostages held in Tehran until Reagans
inauguration, the administration would supply unlimited guns and ammunition
to the
Iranians.

In order to get Bush back for a Sunday morning brunch so that nobody
would be alerted to his absence he was flown back in an SR-71 from Reims
field near Paris to McGuire AFB.

Of course Reagan won, the hostages were released and one of my jobs in
Cairo was to deliver those arms from Tel Aviv to Tehran.

Unfortunately, the first airplane in, an Argentinean CL-44 was shot down
by the Russians just south of Yerevan and Mossad who was running the
operation didn´t want to risk sending my 707. The arms where eventually
delivered through Dubai, across the Persian Gulf and directly into Terhan.

During the 2 years I was in Cairo I averaged 180 hours a month with a
top month of 236 hours in a 31 day period. I spent a 6 week tour in Khartoum
flying cows to Saana, North Yemen in an old Rolls Royce powered 707.

Back in Las Vegas in December of 1982 I sat on my ass until I was out
of money, again, and then went to work for Global Int´l Airlines in Kansas
City, another CIA cutout run by Farhad Azima, an Iranian with a bonafide
Gold Plated Get Out of Jail Free card flying 707´s until they collapsed in
October of 83.

During the summer of 1983 the FAA celebrated its 25th Anniversary at
the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. There was much
fanfare
and speech making and 2 honored guests. Bill Conrad from Miami, Florida
who had the most type ratings, I think over 50. And myself. I had the most
airman certificates issued of any other airman.

After Global´s collapse I went went to work for American Trans Air
flying 707´s. I wrote their international navigation manual as MNPS for
North
Atlantic operations was just being implemented and became the first FAA
designated check airman for MNPS navigation. ATA then added 727´s and then
Lockheed L-1011´s. For a very brief time I was qualified as captain in all
three.

After getting fired from ATA in July of 1989 I became a freight dog
flying DC-8´s for Rosenbalm Aviation which became Flagship Express and
after that airline collapsed I was hired as Chief pilot for Patriot Airlines
out
of Stead Field in Reno, flying cargo 727´s from Miami to South America.
After getting fired from Patriot I went to work for Connie Kalitta flying
DC-8s then the L-1011 on which I was a check airman. Kalitta sold out to
Kitty Hawk International which went bankrupt in May of 2000.

I was 57 at the time and nobody is going to hire an old f*ck for two
and a half years except to fly sideways so I turned in my stripes and ever
present flask of Courvoisier. Except for one last fling in March of 2001
where I flew the Hadj for a Cambodian Airline flying L-1011´s under contract
to Air India. We were based in New Delhi and flew to Jeddah from all
throughout India. There was absolutely no paperwork, no FAA, no BS and for
6 weeks we just moved Hadji´s back and forth to Saudi Arabia.

One final note, in October of 1999 I had the honor and extreme pleasure
to get checked out in a Lockheed CF-104D Starfighter. My instructor was
Darryl Greenamyer, the airplane was owned by Mark and Gretchen Sherman of
Phoenix. It was the highlight of my aviation career particularly because I
survived my first and only SFO in a high performance fighter.

One other thing, some how I managed to get he following type ratings:
707/720/727, Convair 240/340/440, DC-3, DC-8, B-26, Gulfstream 1, Lockheed
Constellation, Lear Jet series, HS-125, Lockheed L-1011, Lockheed L-18,
Lockheed P-38, Martin 202/404, B-17, B-25, Grumman TBM and Ford Trimotor.
I also have single and multi engine sea, rotorcraft helicopter and
gyroplane,
and lighter than air free balloon. I never got all categories having missed
the Airship. And in case you are interested many, many airmen have lots more
type ratings.

What I did get, that no other airman got was most FAA certificates: these
are

the ATP, Flight Instructor with airplane single and multi engine,
instrument,

rotorcraft helicopter and gyroplane and glider. Flight Navigator, Flight
Engineer,

Senior Parachute Rigger, Control Tower Operator, A&P, Ground Instructor,

Advanced and Instrument and Aircraft Dispatcher. I have 19,488 hours of
total

time of which 15,325 hours is in 1,2,3 or 4 engine jet. I took a total of
181 FAA

(or designated check airman) check rides and failed 2.

Of the thousands of times I knowingly violated an FAA regulation I was
only caught once but never charged or prosecuted.

The farthest I have ever been off course was 321 miles left over the
South China Sea in a 707 on New Years day 1977 on a flight from Taipai.
The deviation was not caught by Hong Kong, Manila or Singapore radar and I
penetrated six zero to unlimited restricted areas west of the Philippines.
I landed in Singapore 7 minutes late without further incident.

How, you ask, did I get so far off course? The short answer is I was
napping at the controls. I have flown just about everywhere except Russia,
China, Mongolia, Korea, Antarctica, Australia or New Zealand. I am a senior
vice-commander of the American Legion Post No.1 Shanghai, China (Generals
Ward, Chennault and Helseth) (operating in exile) and a 21 year member of
the Special Operations Association.

Now some of you may be asking why so many airlines collapsed that I
worked for and why I got fired so many times. My excuse is simple. I am
not the brightest crayon in the box, I am extremely lazy, I have a smart
mouth
and a real poor f*cking attitude.

Wow. What a life!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


Now some of you may be asking why so many airlines collapsed that I
worked for and why I got fired so many times. My excuse is simple. I am
not the brightest crayon in the box, I am extremely lazy, I have a smart
mouth
and a real poor f*cking attitude.

America needs Kerry and Edwards.

http://media.shorturl.com

(Jack Nichols) wrote in
om:

America needs Kerry and Edwards.

http://media.shorturl.com


Like we need another hole in the head...

or if you need a screen door on a submarine...

or if you need tits on a bull...

Or if you need a pair of waffling, indecisive war-criminals (one at least)
that will sue the hell out of Capitalism and re-distribute the wealth of
the most powerful free nation God has ever blessed upon this green earth...

No thanks, we don't need them... and being my local precinct rep for the
Party (GOP) either do the 156 people I have registered Republican this past
month..(Can't count the numbers that have already chosen to defeat the
challengers that I couldn't sign up).

I smell 60% to 30% Bush/Cheney come Election Day. The rest write-ins for
Nader...At least in the states that the Dems have SUED for the censorship
and dis-enfranchisement of the people's right to vote for good 'ole Ralph.

And to keep us on charter... Flew my first night x-country today...
considered myself Civil Air patrol over the blessed GOP counties of San
Diego and Orange...

-Doug
"I am the far right"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newsTs0d.166763$Fg5.154834@attbi_s53...
Wow. What a life!

Wow, what a load of BS! Nice fantasy, Yawn.



Now some of you may be asking why so many airlines collapsed that I
worked for and why I got fired so many times. My excuse is simple. I am
not the brightest crayon in the box, I am extremely lazy, I have a smart
mouth
and a real poor f*cking attitude.

"Doug" :

Like we need another hole in the head...

Already got one: the Patriot Act.

or if you need a screen door on a submarine...

Already got one: control of all three branches of government by
Republicans, leaking federal money at a prodigious rate.

or if you need tits on a bull...

Already got one: a useless war in Iraq.

[snip]

I smell 60% to 30% Bush/Cheney come Election Day.

Inflated, but basically correct. It's a tragedy for this country that
these clowns will get four more years, but the Democrats are mostly to
blame for failing to offer any strong alternative.

[snip]

-Doug
"I am the far right"

No, really?

--
Dan

"Shut up! Shut up!" - Bill O'Reilly

"CB" wrote

Wow, what a load of BS! Nice fantasy, Yawn.

Sorry CB, because of all of the time that I spent on
furlough from Pan American Airlines, my resume reads
just about the same as John's. Unfortunately, I became
familiar with most of the 707 companies where he worked.
I have no difficulty believing his resume at all.

Bob Moore

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:52:44 GMT, Bob Moore wrote:

Wow, what a load of BS! Nice fantasy, Yawn.

Sorry CB, because of all of the time that I spent on
furlough from Pan American Airlines, my resume reads
just about the same as John's. Unfortunately, I became
familiar with most of the 707 companies where he worked.
I have no difficulty believing his resume at all.

and it seems that the CIA has done a pretty good [1] job in the aviation
industry.

#m

[1] from an american viewpoint
--
The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil,
the less one is tempted to place the Good
in question. (J.P. Sartre)

"Bob Moore" wrote in message
. 168...
"CB" wrote

Wow, what a load of BS! Nice fantasy, Yawn.

Sorry CB, because of all of the time that I spent on
furlough from Pan American Airlines, my resume reads
just about the same as John's. Unfortunately, I became
familiar with most of the 707 companies where he worked.
I have no difficulty believing his resume at all.

Bob Moore

I don't doubt the truth but in any other walk of life we would be saying
this guy is a delinquent, loser bum, etc not being able to keep a job,
getting fired by his own father escorted out of the state and by his own
admission a complete f**kwit.
Not much to be admired and I feel sorry that sane rational people like
pilots should be creaming their pants in ecstasy over someone who had a
serious attitude problem his who life.
I am also sure a lot of pilots have been to and gone from all the companies
mentioned and even more, but have not got the attitude problems he seems to
have.

"CB" wrote in message ...
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newsTs0d.166763$Fg5.154834@attbi_s53...
Wow. What a life!

Wow, what a load of BS! Nice fantasy, Yawn.

CB
I re-read Lears story and laughed through much of it as I was around
for much of it. John has been a close friend of mine since the 70's
and I've spent many many hours at his home with him and his wife
Marilee. We've flown together a few times and finished off a fair
share of expensive cognac at the house and up at his gold mine.
I still love to give John a bad time about a lot of things as he does
to me. I know its hard to believe it all but it's true. You should
hear some of the things that AREN'T written for public consumption!!
FlyinRock



Now some of you may be asking why so many airlines collapsed that I
worked for and why I got fired so many times. My excuse is simple. I am
not the brightest crayon in the box, I am extremely lazy, I have a smart
mouth
and a real poor f*cking attitude.