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Arthur H. Sanfelici , Editor , Aviation History
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Arthur H. Sanfelici , Editor , Aviation History Magazine
Arthur H. Sanfelici became interested in aircraft as a child while watching DC-3 airliners fly over his New Jersey home from New York's La Guardia Airport.He avidly followed the air war during World War II and aviation history has been his avocation ever since.At the age of 11 , his parents took him to see a demonstration of the country's first operational jet fighter , the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star , which was making a tour at the end of the war.Watching the jet do a low flyby , he told his parents , I'm going to fly that some day..Twelve years later , after studying engineering at Lehigh University and entering the aviation cadet pilot training program of the U.S. Air Force , he soloed the Lockheed T-33--the two-seat version of the Shooting Star.
After earning his wings as a jet pilot , he checked out in the Douglas C-47 ( military DC-3 ) in California and later flew the Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane from South Carolina on international routes.He left the service after five years and became a flight instructor and aircraft salesman for a Piper Aircraft distributor in New Jersey , at the same field he had seen that P-80 years before.He wrote a how-to lesson about landing techniques for his students , which he sold as an article to an aviation magazine.He caught the writing bug and became an editor for national aviation magazines in New York and Washington.He also sold Learjet executive aircraft.More recently , he has been a communications representative for aviation associations.He is the founding editor of Aviation History magazine , spreading the enjoyment of his favorite topic to readers everywhere.
The Aviation History email address is : AviationHistory@thehistorynet.com.
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