Larry Patnode:  

Well let's see I served in the U.S.A.F. as a senior avionics technician for the F-16 block 30 and block 42, deployed to Portugal and Iraq, after which I was assigned to Luke A.F.B. in Phoenix AZ. Got out of the military, Then went to work at Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense and Reconnaissance in Goodyear AZ. The project was called Peace Krypton (you can Google it if you like) it was the retrofit, testing, and development of four Hawker 800 XP business jets that were converted to spy planes for the South Korean government, Once that project was completed I went to work for B.F. Goodrich; This was a research and development project for new types of inflatable passenger restraint technologies for both cars and aircraft. My job was to develop a cheaper and more advanced crash sensor, When 9/11 occurred, no one was buying aircraft, coupled with the economic slowdown afterward, well no more research money, no more job. So I began work at Honeywell Test and Simulation to design, test, and provide support for engineering test platforms which tested both aircraft software and hardware designs for the Primus Epic avionics platforms and various other aircraft. I also did development work for the ARJ-21 Chinese fly-by-wire regional jet platform. Honeywell is a place of constant flux of hiring and layoffs. I got tired of that so I returned to flight line avionics work for business and private aircraft. ...Expand for more