Night Dreams Talk Radio

John Lear, (age 78) spent 43 years as a commercial pilot, and holds the most FAA Airman Certificates ever issued to a single pilot including Airline Transport Pilot, Flight Instructor, Ground Instructor, Flight Engineer, Navigator, Dispatcher, Aircraft Airframe Mechanic, Aircraft Powerplant Mechanic, Control Tower Operator, Parachute Rigger, and 23 Aircraft Type Ratings.Retired in 2001 with 19,600 hours having flown almost everywhere in the world except China, Russia and Antarctica. He flew over 100 combat missions for the CIA in Southeast Asia, held 17 world speed records in the Learjet set on May 26, 1966 and flew with 25 different passenger and cargo airlines. John raced a Douglas B-26 Invader medium bomber in the Reno National Air Races in 1968 and managed to pass one North American P-51 fighter.He is schooled in aircraft design, construction and accident investigation. John has been in 2 major aircraft crashes, the first on June 24, 1961 in a German Bucker Jungmann 131 and in a Brantly B-2 helicopter in