While most people scramble to keep up with one life, Paul Misencik Sr. is busy living about five. And Blue Heron Book Works is thrilled to announce that we are publishing his memoir FLYING early next year.
This is Paul: At the age of four Paul took his first airplane ride in a 1929 Ford Trimotor, made of corrugated aluminum and lovingly nicknamed the “Tin Goose.” He still vividly remembers that first plane ride. From then on, Paul was hooked on airplanes, learning to fly before he could drive. He wooed the love of his life, Sally, at the age of fifteen by taking her on several airplane rides. Sally was blissfully unaware at the time that Paul wasn’t yet old enough to qualify for a pilot’s license.
Paul is a native of Northern Ohio. Graduated University of Akron, 1963, M.A. American History specializing in Native American Culture and Colonial American History. While in high school, he was a regular on a Saturday afternoon TV show hosted by Jimmy Breslin, where Paul discussed Ohio Native-American culture and society. After college, Paul taught school and coached high school football in Akron Ohio. On weekends and during the summer he worked as a flight instructor, stunt pilot, and aerobatic instructor. He fondly recalls flying with Richard Bach the author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull, and he provided aerobatic instruction to George Peppard, the star of the WWI flying movie, The Blue Max.
In 1967, Paul was hired as a pilot with Eastern Airlines and flew as a captain, flight instructor, and check-airman until they ceased operations in 1991. While at Eastern, he was artist and cartoonist for the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) Airline Pilot Magazine. After Eastern Airlines, he flew as an international airline captain with four other airlines including USAfrica Airways which was headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As a captain with non-scheduled Airlines, Paul has had some of his most memorable aviation adventures.
In 1996 Paul was hired as a major air carrier investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board and in 1998 he was promoted to his present position as the chief of the operational factors division at the NTSB.
Paul love of American history has resulted in three published non-fiction books that are based on his life-long research. The titles are: The Original American Spies: Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War, and George Washington and the Half King Chief Tanacharison: An Alliance That Began the French and Indian War. His third book is Sally Townsend: George Washington’s Teenage Spy, which will be published in 2015. Besides compiling Paul’s memoirs, he and Sally are currently researching their fourth book on 18th Century Indian villages and trails in the Ohio territory.
Paul has been married to Sally Misencik since 1963, and they live in Reston, Virginia. They have two children Karen Misencik Carter and Paul Jr. Karen and her husband Tom live in Arlington, Virginia, and Paul Jr. and his wife Altamira live in Javea, Spain with their two children Diego and Mateo.
The ceremonial handing over of the manuscript! Aviator and historian Paul Misencik traveled to Alllentown to turn in his memoir, well also to do some research on his fourth book which he is writing with his wife, Sally Misencik. Of course, they didn't have to come to Allentown to turn in his manuscript, that's what email is all about, but it's a lot more fun to celebrate in person! These are tales from inside the cockpit, and really, you can't make this stuff up and we can't wait to have it ready for you to read.
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