Warbird Alley: Contributors and Staff
Warbird Alley
Staff and Contributors
We are lucky to have a talented
cadre of staff, enthusiasts and freelance
writers who have contributed to this site. Here's who they are.
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Buck Wyndham Founder / Editor-in-Chief
After graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Buck was commissioned in the US Air Force, where he was privileged to fly the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (the "Warthog"), based at RAF Alconbury, England. He flew 38 combat missions in the A-10 over Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. He later spent eight years in Texas, flying the Northrop T-38 Talon as an instructor pilot in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. An author, photographer, video producer and contributor to publications such as EAA Warbirds, Classic Jet Journal, the Avion and others, he has facilitated and led over a hundred air-to-air photo missions. He created Warbird Alley in 1998 and still does most of the day-to-day tasks involved with the site, including much of the photography, writing, editing, and site updates. Contact information: editor (at) warbirdalley.com |
John "Skipper" Hyle Associate Editor
To date he has done almost everything in airplanes except crop-dusting -- to include flying skydivers, carrying checks, instructing, flying charter trips, and his present job as an airline Captain. Skipper served in the U.S. Air Force as an F-16 pilot stationed in Japan and a T-38 Instructor Pilot based in Lubbock, Texas. He has been interested in warbirds since he was eight years old and saw Bob Hoover perform. He has owned a Fairchild PT-26, now owns and flies a Harvard Mk 4, and also flies the CAF Dixie Wing’s P-51 Mustang. He also instructs in the T-6, is a CAF T-6 Check Airman, and is a CAF and NATA FAST Check Airman. He has over 15,000 flying hours, including over 500 hours in such types as the PT-17 Stearman, PT-26 Cornell, Meyers OTW, AT-19 Stinson Reliant, L-5 Sentinel, and T-6. |
Pat Carry Associate Editor
He has done consulting work for many websites including warbirdsresourcegroup.org, preservedaxisaircraft.com, aerofiles.com, aerovintage.com, aerialvisuals.ca, and www.stratofortress.org. Over the years he has provided untold updates for the book, "A Guide to over 900 Aircraft Museums" by Michael Blaugher (www.aircraftmuseums.com). Pat has been married to his wife Linda for 25 years. They
have five grandchildren. |
Buck doesn't mind it when his friends call
him an Airplane Nut. A pilot for over 38 years, he is currently a Captain with a major US
airline. He is also an avid warbird pilot, aircraft
builder, advanced flight instructor, test pilot and FAST formation instructor, with 22,000+ hours of
flying time in more than 110 different aircraft types. He has given flight
instruction in the L-39 Albatros jet, T-6 Texan, Yak-52, CJ-6, Fouga Magister, Hawker
Hunter, MiG-15 and other warbird types.
John has been flying for over
30 years. As a child growing up in Richmond,
Virginia, he listened to his grandfather’s stories of the early,
"open-cockpit" days at Eastern Airlines.
Pat
was a police officer in Waukegan, Illinois for 28 years before retiring in
2003. Since then he has been working in the Building and Grounds Department
at the Six Flags Great America amusement park in Gurnee, Illinois. His
interest in warbirds was stoked in the mid-1980s when he purchased Martin
Bowman's book, "Castles in the Air" at the Pima Air & Space Museum, and was
hooked. Since then, his interest has expanded to WWII in general, and he has
collected about 75 books signed by authors and veterans of that conflict.