marc wolff

Marc Wolff was born in the USA. He spent his childhood in Hackensack, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. After studying industrial engineering at university, Marc entered the U. S. Army and served a five-year tour of duty. He attended infantry officer training school, obtaining a commission as a second lieutenant; he then went on to flight scho... ol in Texas and Georgia, graduating as a helicopter pilot. His military service included one year conducting combat flight operations in South Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and helicopter platoon leader where he was responsible for a flight of 8 helicopters. He also served a 2 year tour of duty in West Germany as commander of a mechanized infantry company and later, a battalion intelligence officer. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, making him the youngest Captain in the US Army at the age of 21. He received an honorable discharge in November 1971 having been awarded a Bronze Star for service and 22 awards of the Air Medal. Marc then took a course of advance flight training at Flight Safety, Inc. in Vero Beach, Florida: gaining commercial airplane, instrument, multi-engine airplane and flight instructor licenses to go along with his commercial helicopter pilot's license. In 1972 Marc moved to Britain where he did further flight training at the Oxford Air Training School in Oxford, England. Here he obtained an Airline Transport Pilot's license for helicopters and later a commercial balloon pilot's license. He spent four years with a commercial helicopter company in Britain where the flying covered the whole spectrum of commercial helicopter operations including: external load lifting, mapping, long line mineral surveys, agricultural spraying, executive charter, and aerial filming. He resigned as chief pilot and a company director in 1976 to start his own business, providing a comprehensive aviation service to the film and TV industry worldwide; this business has grown into the present day Flying Pictures Ltd. Marc became a British Citizen in 1987. Marc has a ...Read More