TC - Tom Cleaver
Vital stats:
Age - a couple years older than you guys in your early 50s.
Residence: The San Fernando Valley, greater Los Angeles, close enough I plan to take Fabrocini up on his offer of the free meal.
Occupation: Screenwriter/aviation journalist. I'm one of the few screenwriters left in Hollywood who is "over 45" (which seems to be the magic cut-off age) and still manages to sell scripts and get hired to write them, though not as frequently as before and now a bit more "entrepreneurial" in the paycheck (read: enough to live on while doing the work against the "right-size paycheck" on production). I'm a Regular Contributor to Flight Journal, and also the Senior Contributing Editor over at Modeling Madness.
I love airplanes and am the son of an aeronut who wing-walked a Jenny when he was 15 and was once Roscoe Turner's mechanic. (When you drive on freeways made of prestressed concrete, and never think a moment as to whether it's really solid or not, thank my Dad for his invention of how to be sure prestressed concrete is really solid without breaking it open to see.) Back when aviation was affordable, I had a hundred hours or so in a Stearman, along with 1,000 other hours flying around the west coast in various other airplanes.
When I am not writing movies or writing about airplanes or building models of them, I love to take pictures of them, air-to-air. Come visit my website, The Aeronut, to see the results.
http://members.aol.com/tomtheaeronut/index.html
Cheers,
Tom Cleaver