journalism."[3] He died in 2010 at age 92.
(March 28, 1918 – May 6, 2010) |
Was a United Press International, Washington, DC, reporter and manager of Radio News Division, 1945-60, aviation editor, 1960-66; air safety lecturer and consultant, beginning 1966.
- Received numerous honors of his work throughout his career: Trans-World Airlines, seven awards, 1958-65, for aviation news reporting, Strebig-Dobben Memorial Award, 1960; special citations from Sherman Fairchild Foundation, 1963, Flight Safety Foundation, 1970, and Airline Pilots Association, 1970; Aviation/Space Writers Association, James Trebig Memorial Award, 1964, special citation, 1967, award in fiction, 1966, for The Left Seat, and in nonfiction, 1969, for Loud and Clear.
- Collected commercial airline models (owns more than four hundred) and material on aviation research.
- Member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators and the Aviation/Space Writers Association
- Brother Rod Serling hired him as a consultant for the airplane sequences in the episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" of his hit TV-show "The Twilight Zone."
- "Something's Alive on the Titanic" and "The President's Plane Is Missing" are fantasy novels set in real life high-profile backdrops.
- Was a reporter for the Washington Redskins. Travelled with the team and roomed with quarterback Eddie Lebaron.
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