Nelson Barrett:  

Greetings one and all, After BJH, it was off to Silver Heights and then U of M in the Engineering faculty. With a tough job market in the early 80's, I joined the Air Force as an engineering officer and what was to be a 4 year experience turned into a 20 year career allowing myself and the growing family the opportunity to live in interesting places all around the world (Australia, England) and get my masters in aerospace design along the way (if anyone needs a WWII bomber designed..... well that was what they taught us.... the instructors were a bit aged). I spent my military career primarily in F-18 operations and flight testing with only 1 year of penance in Ottawa (where I spent a year trying to buy Maritime Helicopters that the powers that be had no realt interest in actually buying!) At age 40, I resigned my commission to take up a position, in of all places, Winnipeg with a company called Standard Aero (I guess I missed -40C temperatures, flooding, and mosquitos). I did 10 years with Standard Aero and was fortunate to have been able to move around and up in the company in a great period of growth. I left in 2010 with the ability to take a sabbatical of sorts: 5 weeks delivering a sailboat from Panama to...Expand for more