Biography

Exerpted from an interview with AOPA fter flying Dean Cuttshall’s F-100 at Ft. Wayne…
It’s always been my favorite airplane. I guess it was my first fighter. It’s not an easy airplane to fly. You have to work at it to fly it well. I guess a lot of pilots have a love affair with their first jet aircraft. For me it was always “the one”. It was an early 2^nd generation of fighter aircraft, it had a lot of bad habits. If you were trained well, and you respected it, you could fly it. It could bite you. It could kill you.
I came right out of pilot training, into the F-100, younger than most of the people, plus the Guard had the airplane after the active duty, well into the 1970’s. So, the Guard guys will be younger.
I still fly with the Commemorative Air Force, I fly B-24, B-29, B-25 as the main airplanes and then some of the little ones, PT-19.

Units Assigned

• 1970-1977 175th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Sioux Falls, SD (F-100)

Awards & Decorations

Flight Info

F-100

Military Education

Civilian Education