Richard D'arcy:
CLASS OF 1984
Ward Melville High SchoolClass of 1984
East setauket, NY
Richard's Story
After graduation I received my Airplane Pilots License (Certificate), went in the U.S. Marines repaired and flew on Helicopters. I can tell you this; I hated every second in the Marines. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, how do I know that, I was counting them until my discharge.
After the Marines I went back to Long Island in 1987 worked at Grumman Aerospace in Calverton. Worked on all that cool stuff that was used in the Gulf Wars. Heavy Metal was still in vogue and hung out with Fred Peritore and his band Assualt allot of bars and beer later. I left Long Island in 1989 for the Seattle area to work at Boeing and I also learned to fly Helicopters I lived in a little town called Goldbar. Anyway I lived in the Seattle area before the music scene exploded in the 90's. In 1989 the music was not as cool as a few years later.
I moved to Huntington Beach Orange County California worked at McDonnell Douglas I had fun on test flights of MD80 and MD11 airliner aircraft. California was paradise compared to Seattle, an excellent place to live and learn to surf, I was a regular at Bolsa Chica tower 19 nice break, overhead sets at least once a week. I also surfed the Atlantic Ocean Sea Side NJ and the Pacific Ocean Huntington Beach in the same day. I watched the LA Riots in April of 1992, from cockpit of the helicopter I was flying until they started shooting at Helicopters.
In 1993 I left California for Atlanta to work at (now don't laugh) ValuJet Airlines. I was their first employee. Eventually I was in charge of buying aircraft, arranging heavy maintenance and test flights. Then the May 1996 crash some how I got sued for doing my job. Oh well we changed the company name to AirTran I moved to Orlando FL.
I got married in 01 to Deborah a beautiful girl I met her in Atlanta she is a Montessory teacher. After a few more years with the airline I left for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) now the irony is, these are the same guys who accused me of the crash 1996. Then about in 2000 they said hey you didn't do it, and we want you to testify against the people who did. Oh now they are my buddies. Well I currently work for the FAA as a Principal Inspector for Certificate Management of a Freight Airline.
We have lots of fun in F...Expand for more
lorida though the waves suck, we enjoy boating, the beach, walking our dogs, fishing, cooking and the relaxed lifestyle in Cocoa Beach. An Italian like me can grow Basil and Tomatoes all year nothing like gravy (for non Italians: tomato sauce) made from homegrown tomatoes, basil and parsley. I don't worry about Hurricanes that is what insurance is for. Though the 2004 hurricane season was tough.
Favorite quotes:
With today's crazy world buy Oil long call contracts (Rich D'Arcy)
Pass me the scalpel, I'll make an incision
I'll cut off the part of your brain that does the b!tching (MCA)
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my (Foster The People)
Look at my facemy name is might have been, my name is never was, my name's forgotten (Hole)
The greatest weapon of the Fascist is the tolerance of the Pacifist. (Suicidal Tendencies)
Out there is a fortune waiting to be had If you think I'll let it go you're mad You've got another thing coming. (Judas Priest)
Honesty is my only excuse. (Metallica)
I can guide a missile by satellite, by satellite, by satellite.
and I can hit a target through a telescope,through a telescope, through a telescope. (Flobots)
And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore We've all gone crazy lately My friends out there rolling round the basement floor (Elton John)
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetary now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and moving
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove them
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells
(Rage Against the Machine)
If you think I'm controlling
Then why do you follow me around
If you're not co-dependent
Then why do you let others drag you down
I don't know why you're messed up
I don't know why your whole life is a chore
Just do me a favor
And check your baggage at the door
(he Offspring)
Bought a hot shot gat from a north end guinea, Ante up with your ass 'cause you ain't got a penny,Droppin' bombs from above cut ya all down to size'Cause they're hip to the bull and they're hip to the lies (Puscifer)
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