Stewart Guddat:  

I attended Shasta College, then transferred to San Francisco State, enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program. I graduated SFSU in Dec. '75, and started USAF Pilot Training (UPT) in June '76 at Craig AFB, AL. While there, I married Robin O'Neill, an Enterprise High graduate. Upon completion of UPT in June '77, I was assigned the T-33 to K.I. Sawyer AFB, MI. While at "K.I." we had our first daughter, Haley. In Jan. '80 I started training in the F-106 Delta Dart and flew that until June '82, when I transferred to Holloman AFB, NM as an AT-38 instructor at Fighter Lead-In School. While there, we had our second daughter, Lyndsay. I left the Air Force in Jan. '85 (also got a divorce) and started working for Eastern Airlines (EAL). While there, I was flew the B-727 & L-1011 as Flight Engineer, and on the Dc-9, B-727 & B-757 as First Officer. EAL, sadly, closed down Jan. '91, and I didn't fly again until a year later when I was hired at Hawaiian Airlines (HAL) as a DC-8 Flight Engineer. A year later in '93, I was furloughed, and was selected in the 3rd class of pilots at an upstart airline, ValuJet. I was a DC-9 captain/instructor/check airman, and Chief Pilot of the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami base until '97, when I left to fly at EVA Air, in Taiwan, as an MD-11 captain. During that time I was also an MD-11 Simulator Instructor. In '05 EVA started operations in Shanghai, China; Shanghai Cargo Airlines, and I transferred there in '06, where I flew as captain/instructor/check airman. In 2010, China Cargo Airlines bought Sh...Expand for more