Captain Dick Blizzard was a Delta Airlines pilot for thirty-three years. He retired as an international captain, flying the MD-11 from Portland, Oregon, to Asia. Dick started his f...показать большеCaptain Dick Blizzard was a Delta Airlines pilot for thirty-three years. He retired as an international captain, flying the MD-11 from Portland, Oregon, to Asia. Dick started his flying career as a naval aviation cadet and served as naval aviator for seven years. He made over two hundred carrier landings and served with the Sixth Fleet in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Dick is licensed by the US Coast Guard to command ships up to one hundred tons. He cruised the West Coast of the United States from Alaska to Mexico with his wife (the admiral) for twenty-one years. Their fifty-three-foot twin-diesel yacht was docked in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.
Captain Dick was born and raised in an Appalachian coal-mining region of Eastern Kentucky and now lives with his dog, Nibbles, on the Alabama Gulf Coast. He attended Pikeville College, in Pikeville Kentucky and the University of Miami.
Captain Dick Blizzard now spends his time writing, speaking, and touring the country in his RV.показать меньше