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ADVISORY BOARD
Chairman Jim Greenwood, Green Valley, AZ
C.E. "Pete" Adolph
Lyn Benedict, Roswell, NM
Doug Boothe, Vandenberg AFB, CA
Gen. Bob Cardenas, USAF (Ret.) San Diego, CA
Velvet Fackeldey, Lebanon, MO
Alfred W. Hobelman, Alexandria, VA
Sandor "Alex" Kvassay, Wichita, KS
Col. Bill Lafferty USAF (Ret.), Tucson, AZ
Major Gen. Peter Dodd Robinson USAF (Ret.), Albuquerque, NM
Peter Westacott, Beeston, Norfolk UK
Bob Worthington, New Mexico
Jim Greenwood, (chair)
was the legendary Bill Lear’s Segundo for three years in his long and varied
career which included a stint as Assistant Administrator of the FAA under
Reagan.
Jim says that when Lear sold the company, he asked Jim to
accompany him on the new enterprise, but Jim turned him down.
“Three years with Bill Lear was a lifetime”, he
said.
C.E.
“Pete” Adolph
has over 50 years
experience in test and evaluation and systems acquisition. He started his career
as a flight test engineer for Convair division of General Dynamics on the F-102
and F-106 flight test programs. He then spent three years as an Air Force
officer, primary in test activities at Edwards Air Force Base. From 1987
to 1994, he held several positions in the Office of the Secretary of
Defense(OSD). For most of that period, he was Director, Test and Evaluation,
Acquisition and Technology. He also served as interim director of Operational
Test and Evaluation and interim Director of Defense Research and Engineering. He
was a senior vice president for Science Applications International (SAIC) from
1994 to 2000 and served as the manager of the SAIC test and evaluation group. He
is currently a consultant for the Institute for Defense Analyses and other
organizations. ccadolph@aol.com
Lyn
Benedict and her
husband, Tom, own Benedict
Air
Park
south of Roswell.
Lyn’s hospitality is renowned throughout the
Southwest- I’ve even heard some folks refer to it as “Benedict’s Bed and
Breakfast”.
She is a community and aviation activist whose generosity
with her time and organizational abilities are legend.
av8r@plateautel.net
Doug
Boothe was
selected for the position of Deputy Director, Operations Support
Group-Vandenberg in 2005.
In 2006, he was further assigned as the Director,
Operations Support Group-Vandenberg during realignment of the Ground-based
Midcourse Defense Program.
In 2008 he assumed further duties as the MDA lead
at Vandenberg AFB. douglas.boothe@mda.mil
Gen.
Bob Cardenas, like Col. Lafferty, has had a broad and varied
Air Force career, but may be best known as the B-29 pilot who launched “Glamorous Glennis” with Chuck Yeager at the controls.
He is a recent inductee to the Aviation/Space Hall
of Fame. rocar80@cox.net
Velvet Fackeldey retired in 2006 from her 26-year post as
executive of the International Cessna 170 Association, one of the world’s
largest aviation type-clubs.
She is a widely published poet/writer/editor who
served two years as the President of the Missouri Poet’s Association.
She was recently made a life-member of that
organization. c170velvet@yahoo.com
Al
Hobelmann joins
the FAF Advisory Board from his position as Vice President of CCSi, Rockville,
MD. CCSi is a
government small business prime contractor focused on the design and development
of high level mission-critical information systems. Al is part of a senior
management team which guides the corporation’s growth in technology. Prior
to this position, Al has 35 years experience in government contracting with
companies including Hughes Aircraft and Sperry Univac. He is an
experienced professional in all phases of planning, organizing and managing
project teams. alhobelmann@aol.com
1136
Greenway Rd.,
Alexandria VA
22308-1236,
(h)703-765-7646
(c)703-307-1530
Sandor “Alex” Kvassay,
besides being a successful author, has had a career that has spanned the better
part of seven decades under the German and Russian occupation of his homeland,
Hungary.
Freed from his captors, he was whisked to the Pentagon in
an intelligence role and served in the US military.
He eventually hooked up with the peripatetic Bill
Lear and became Lear’s Director of International Sales.
He now splits his time between home in Wichita and traveling
worldwide with his grandchildren and their parents. ak1935@aol.com
8316
Brentmoor, Wichita
KS
67206,
(h)316-681-1795
(fax)316-681-1755
Col. Bill Lafferty flew the last-everB-36 mission, and recalls
making a low pass over his father’s house on that day with the massive bomber
and kicking in the burners as he passed overhead.
He said that he was unaware that his dad was
working from a ladder on the second story at the time. walafferty@aol.com
Gen. Peter Dodd Robinson
is the great-grandson of General George A. Dodd, who commanded the second unit
to enter Mexico as a part of Gen. “Blackjack
Pershing’s Punitive Expedition that followed the raid.
At the time of Robinson’s retirement, he was
Commandant of the Air
War
College, and Vice Commander of the Air
University at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.
Robinson has served around the world (including Vietnam), acquiring some 3400 flying
hours and has flown 435 combat missions in F-100s, F-4s, and F-15 Eagles.
pdrobin@comcast.net
Peter Westacott
one of the few aviation artists who also are pilots.
He is strongly connected to the First Aero Squadron
Aerodrome through his painting of JN-3 Jennys in flight over that very field.
The original hangs in the Pentagon, where it was
presented by Peter to Gen. Mike Ryan, AF Chief.
He says that he recently lost his medical after a
50 year flying career, most of it with the Royal Navy.
(see
westacottart.com) westacottprw@aol.com
Bob
Worthington is retired from the Army where he served multiple
roles; currently he serves as President of the New Mexico Pilots Association and
VP of the US Pilots Assn.
Bob is a retired journalism professor, was an FAA
Safety Counselor, and now a FAAST rep.
A prolific author of over 1800 articles and books,
Bob has just finished a documentary movie on Viet Nam.
He is also an amateur historian and gun collector.
rworthin@q.com