Allan Williams

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Allan Williams

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• Org / Group Test Integration and
• Manufacturing
  Engineering
• Job Title Engineer, Planner
• Years at Boeing 18 at Flight Test

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• Born in Monterey, CA May 1944
• Dad working in Army Signal Corps on secret
  project to teach Philpino spies signaling methods

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• Grew up in Spokane till age 5
• Dad is back from WW 2 in Europe
• I refuse to acknowledge him, call him Mom

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• My biker days - this is an Indian, predecessor
  to Harley
• This is at Victory Heights Post WW2 housing
  project outside Spokane, now under 4-lane hwy

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• Move to Skyway, WA, just above Renton in 1949 at
  age 5 Dad starts 41 year career at Boeing
  Defense and Space
• Worlds to conquer at age 10

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• Move to Mercer Is summer of 54
• Dad has pulled the rabbit out of the hat, we have
  a small piece of waterfront down below on his
  engineer salary, lots of projects on our Swiss
  Family Robinson
• Here Im 13, the eldest

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• A few years later Im the photographer

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• Speech class 7th grade Vacuum Tube Radio
• Dad has a basement full of radio surplus he buys
  and sells

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• Ive been busy with Boy Scouts
• Also completed Mountaineers Basic Climbing course
  1962, climbed Mt Adams

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• Explorer Scout trip to Garibaldi Provincial Park,
  British Columbia 1961

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• Attended Coast Guard Academy 1962-64,
• sail to Europe on USCGC Eagle

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• Complete BS degree in Physical Oceanography with
  Atmospherics Physics minor at UW in 67
• Work for US Army Corps of Engineers doing beach
  erosion prevention from 67 to 73 they write a
  letter each year to keep me out of Viet Nam war

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• Basic and Advanced Diver Los Angeles County 68
• Dive here at Catalina and for work at LA Harbor

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• Take 2 years off 73-75 to finish flying ratings
• Travel to Micronesia
• Dorie Howell bid and won a flying trip with me to
  Santa Barbara airport

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• Travel to Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalahara
  Mexico with my buddy Denny
• Here Im in the foyer of a motel

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• I decide to become a professional pilot
• 2 years as flight instructor at Hawthorne
  Airport, just south of LAX
• 1 year as Chief Flight Instructor/ Flight Dept
  Manager at Del Monte Aviation in Monterey CA
• 6 months company pilot, Radionics, Seaside CA
• 5 years as bush pilot in Fairbanks, Alaska,
  including 300 hours as flight engineer on
  Lockheed C-130 4-engine turboprop
• Enjoy making my own weather forecasts, which
  assists my excellent flight completion rate

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• Complete captains license on B737-200 in May
  1984 in Los Angeles
• 1.5 years as flight engineer on Lockheed Electra
  flying Air Force freight around US for Logistics
  Air Command
• Meet wife Suzanne Feb 14, 1986
• Work for Boeing as Flight Test Planner 87 89

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• 1 year Chief Pilot for Air San Juan/ ChartAir at
  Friday Harbor
• 3 years First Officer on 19-seat BA Jetstream for
  United Express - WestAir, based at Los Angeles,
  San Francisco, Portland, Yakima 1990- 93

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• Pilot licenses

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• 10,500 hours of flight time with no accidents or
  incidents
• Return to Boeing Flight Test Planning
  (Manufacturing Engineering) 1996
• BS Manufacturing Engineering with Oregon
• Institute of Technology on site Boeing off
  hours
• 1998 01, first graduating class

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• Marry Suzanne July 1999

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• MS Degree Technical Management Embry Riddle 2003
  - 05, Thesis July 07 How much does it cost to
  store parts at Flight Test
• Ten years with Toastmasters Advanced Gold Award
  Sept 07
• Have been in all 50 states, lived in 4 corners of
  US and Alaska, Hawaii 3x, Europe 2x
• Hobbies Travel, hiking, snow and water skiing,
  reading, writing, boating, sailing, sing-a-long
  music group
• What Diversity Inclusion means to me