Professional Pilot, January 2016
PUBLISHERS MESSAGE Building on reader acceptance and continuing forward Combining a people approach with a wide variety of editorial 1967 2016 years PROFESSIONAL PILOT inputs has proven to be a successful format for Pro Pilot By Murray Smith Founder Editor Publisher ATP CFI Beech Baron 58 A s I was growing up I knew I wanted to fly probably by the time I was 5 but I also enjoyed writing drawing and painting I liked sketching writing poems and I was also an avid reader My mother used to say You are shaped by the people you meet and the books you read So I combined these 2 loves of journalism which I studied at the University of Illinois and flying which I began in Waukegan at age 14 working at the airport and taking flying lessons After getting out of the Pentagon as a Naval Officer I pursued technical writing assignments for different government activities making up Datagraf organization charts had a Datagram newsletter and also published a journal titled 12 PROFESSIONAL PILOT January 2016 With the 1st issue of Jan 1967 and ever after Pro Pilot format holds to not using handout photos of aircraft from manufacturers for covers but instead showcasing companies and govt activities that use business aircraft to further their goals with pilots and execs posed in front Data on Defense Civil Systems I also published an undersea supply book called the Hydrospace Buyers Guide Publishing a somewhat different aviation magazine was a goal for many years Where were the people in the other aviation magazines I flew around first with a rented Piper Tri Pacer and then later bought a new Beech Musketeer and logged a lot of hours seeing corporate pilots and FBOs I also joined NBAA I was probably the only member with a piston powered single engine Beech Musketeer And then another thought occurred to me If doctors and other professionals keep current by reading technical journals why not a magazine that would carry articles from experts in many different disciplines of aviation Regardless of the organization type or aircraft operated or where theyre based in the world the responsibilities of av dept leaders and crew are remarkably the same Safe Smith holds model of his beloved Baron 58 N241MS The N number derived from 2 little boys Alex and David for 1 Murray Smith On Dec 31 2002 Murray Smith received an NBAA Pilot Safety Award for logging 6500 accident free hours of flight time
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