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Paul R. Misencik was born to fly.
Since he was four and tagging along with his father to air shows in rural Ohio, through his career as an airline captain with American, Middle Eastern and African airlines, Misencik spent his life doing what he loved: flying airplanes. BORN TO FLY chronicles both the inside scoop on a pilot's career as well as the exotic locations his airplanes took him, sometimes being joined by the love of his life, Sally. Highly entertaining and enormously informative. Now available in paperback right here.
Graduate University of Akron, 1963, M.A. American History specializing in Native American Culture and Colonial American History. While in high school, he was regular on Saturday afternoon TV show hosted by Jim 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, h 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.
