Richard Winslow:  

d GPS were not then a part of the configuration or in many cases not even in one’s imagination. I started building and flying control wire glo-plug powered model planes before age 12 and became hooked. By the time I had reached a “mature” 18, I was piloting single engine planes and over the next 20 years flew everything from Beech 18s, DC3s and “Connies,” to the ultimate piston plane, the DC7 C Long-range, nicknamed The Seven Seas. I had logged enough hours to achieve a multi-engine rating along with my ATP license. (Now finally, I could fly cargo and people!) That “second career” took me worldwide and peaked during the late ‘70s into the mid ‘80s when I earned the rank of Captain flying Boeing 707 jets with a Mid East carrier. I journeyed worldwide, and when I didn’t fly as a command pilot, I traveled at little or no cost in my quest to view the world. This argosy took me to more than 100 countries on all continents. I decided I still liked the Northeast of the good ole US of A; it was home - - - the best. Chuck Berry’s wonderful rocker, “Back in the USA” still makes me smile and feel good too. I found time (and it took many years) to achieve my Ph.D. in the field of Radio Frequency science. Some of my efforts laid the groundwork for the communications technologies that today are incorporated in what is known as the “cell phone” system. Several of our radio towers were used to do propagation studies to determine how and where to build the “cells,” those areas where a portable low-power transmitter/receiver (transceiver) could “talk” to a relay point which would then send that signal on to others and ultimately to another “phone” allowing two-way communications; something that now, 35 years later, is all but taken for granted. Today I manage a NY State Charitable Corporation; I enjoy helping people and this is one way I find where I can “give back.” We are self-funded and I manage our portfolio. I also do a great deal of volunteer work in my community.