Bill Warlick has had an interesting career. He began flying at 14, graduated from NC State in Aerospace Engineering, joined the Navy, instructed in T-28s, and flew several tours in the P-3 Orion-the Navy's patrol version of the Lockheed Electra-before spending three winters flying ski-equipped C-130s in Antarctica. He did stints in Navy flight test, then four years with Northwest Airlines before being furloughed after 9/11 and going to work for the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland-Pax River, for short. The list of types he's flown reads like the index of an aeronautical history book: F-111, F-18, F-16, B-25, P-51,T-6, B-52, B-727, B-757, MiG-15 and so on, with various helicopters and a few Cessnas, Champs and RVs thrown in for good measure.
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