I am a degreed mechanical engineer and a plastics engineer through 30 years of experience. I like solving injection molding problems. Simulation allows me to see into the part, mold and injection molding machine to uncover the root cause of problems that otherwise can be difficult to determine.
From a personal standpoint, here are some of my interests.:
- Flying adventures: 40 years as an instrument rated private pilot:
- Flying videos
- Massachusetts to Nova Scotia in a Beech Sundowner
- Multiple flights to AirVenture Oshkosh, WI
- Tailwheel endorsement in a RV-6
- Los Angeles to Northampton, MA in a RV-6A
- Northampton MA to Bahamas
- Hudson River & NYC flyway exclusion
- Alton Bay, NH ice runway
- Light Plane Maintenance article
- Beech Sundowner, Piper Warrior, Van’s RV-6, Van’s RV-6A
- Gyrocopters
- Bicycle trips:
- 3600 miles – Amherst, MA to San Francisco
- 2500 miles – Jasper, Alberta to Seattle, WA
- 100 miles on W&OD in 2019 and 2022 – almost 40 years since my last century
- Motorcycles
- Honda 90 (complete rebuild)+CL175 (the best)+CB360+750+VTX1300S, Suzuki GLS750
- Oshkosh, WI AirVenture from Massachusetts by VTX 1300S
- New England & Adirondacks
- SVOlink – Straight Vegetable Oil and biodiesel as fuel for diesels
- ECU – Electric UniCycles
- 3D Shapes, Inc./Graftek/Digital, CAD/CAM/CAE history
- Langer Biomechanics automated orthotics creation
- Mold cost program
- Relocation to Cape Cod in 2021
- 85 hikes as Outer Cape Hiking Club organizer including 35 mile Thoreau walk
- 2022 & 2024 20-mile Whole Shebang hike (Jeremy Point, Griffin’s Island, Bound Brook Island)
- 2023-2024 Deputy Constable & Recreational Shellfish Harvester, Wellfleet, MA
Even though I’ve enjoyed many miles on motorcycles I feel way safer in a small plane. There are fewer things to hit and more people paying attention!
One of my favorite flying aphorisms: “the most dangerous part of the flying is the drive to the airport”.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
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