Columnists
Marilyn Dash is a member of the Professional Race Pilots Association and a Veteran Biplane Racer. She is also an aerobatic competitor and a member of the EAA, IAC, and Warbirds of America. As a former Miss Congeniality in the Miss New Jersey USA Pageant, she uses her good looks and charming personality to fly her airplane when all else fails. While flying is her avocation and her passion, her consulting business prevents her from being able to partake as often as she would like. She brings a different view of Air Racing and we hope you enjoy her style.
Stuart Faber has written for the magazine for many years. He writes our monthly destination section. As a pilot, the world opens up to many destinations that an average person wouldn't have the opportunity to see.
Richard Harris is a Wichita-based aviation industry reporter and historian, with a business degree, and training in government, law, journalism and engineering. He's written for Private Pilot, General Aviation News, World Air News and others, and helps judge the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards. A certified ground instructor, he's flown ultralights, antiques, high-performance/retractables and warbird aerobatics, developed manuals for business jets, and served in administrative, technical and support roles at 3 aircraft manufacturers, an airline, and an airport.
Martin Hollman is a mechanical engineer and aircraft designer with 30 years experience. He has worked for Convair Aerospace, Martin Marietta, Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Ford Aerospace and Communications, Westinghouse Electric, FMC, and Kaiser Electronics. Currently he is President of Aircraft Designs, Inc., located in Monterey, CA. Martin has published over 200 technical articles and 13 books on the subjects of aircraft design, advanced composites, aerodynamics, and gyroplanes. He has taught engineering classes at San Jose State University and at Aircraft Designs, Inc. A private pilot, rated for fixed wing and rotorcraft, Martin is also a Senior Member of the AIAA, member of the EAA, and an FAA Designated Engineering Representative for Structures, Design and Flutter.
Julie Jervis wrote a monthly column about women in aviation. A collection of her columns was published in In Flight USA’s first book publication.
Michael Leighton began flying in 1980. By 1990 he held his private, commercial, instrument, multiengine and Certified Flight Instructors ratings. By 1993, he had added the Instrument and Multiengine Instructor ratings as well. A Single engine Seaplane rating, an ATP rating, as well as a type rating in Citation 500 series jets, along with an Airframe and Power Plant Mechanics license all followed. Along the way, he has owned more than eighty different aircraft ranging from a very rare Travel-Air 12Q biplane to a King- Air 200. He operated a FAR Part 135, Air-carrier Company located in South Florida for more than seven years.
Larry Nazimek is a former aerospace engineer for McDonnell Douglas Aeronatics Co., where he worked on the Spartan ABM and Skylab. In the Air Force, he flew F-4C/D/E, T-38A, and B-52H. In the civilian sector, he has flown learjets and various light planes.
Mark Rhodes is a native North Carolinian who lives in Long Island. He has contributed to a variety of publications including The Christian Science Monitor, Picture, Opera, Films in Review and Clear.
Larry Shapiro is a pilot of 50-plus years, an aviation humorist, aircraft broker and airshow performer. On the serious side, he's an accident prevention counselor. He would like to get everyone in the right airplane and keep fellow pilots safe.
Richard VanderMeulen is one of In Flight USA's skilled and professional photographers and writers.
Ed Wischmeyer flew an RV-4 for a dozen years, then bought a Cessna 175 that both he and his wife could fly. The newest acquisition is an AirCam, much like an ultralight but legally experimental, amateur-built, and requiring a multi-engine rating. He has flown 150 makes and models of aircraft, and is now building an RV-10. When not flying or building, he is busy in aviation safety research, writing, and digital photography.
