Rodney Stich
Over 50 years of aviation experience covering many sophisticated areas of air safety.
Navy pilot and flight instructor in multi-engine aircraft from 1942 to 1946.
Airline pilot from 1950 to 1967, flying in domestic and overseas operations. (Transocean Airlines; Seaboard and Western Airlines/Seaboard and World Airlines; California Eastern; California Western; United States Overseas Airline; Flying Tigers; Japan Airlines; Air Djibouti; Air Jordan; the reasons for multiple airlines are due to occasional pilot farming out from original airline (Transocean airlines) and due to the frequent pilot furloughs in the earlier days of commercial aviation.)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air carrier operations inspector, responsible for air safety at several major airlines, conducting flight checks of airline pilots, issuing aircraft ratings to airline pilots, making safety recommendations, inspecting and insuring that airlines meet federal air safety requirements, investigating aircraft incidents and accidents and making reports on them. Airlines at which Stich conducted pilot and flight engineer checks included United, TWA, Eastern, Northwest, among others.
Acted as special prosecutor while an FAA inspector-investigator, forcing an unprecedented four-month-long hearing upon the FAA during which time testimony and hard evidence were presented that proved the existence of corruption related to a series of fatal airline crashes.
Filed federal lawsuits authorized and required by federal law to prove the relationship between serious air safety and criminal violations and a series of specific airline crashes.
Made several safety procedures while an FAA inspector that are standard today at many airlines. These include high altitude jet upset avoidance procedures, procedures to avoid inadvertent descent into the ground, procedure to minimize the large altitude loss following stall of air carrier aircraft, pre-takeoff briefing procedures.
Author of three safety books (Three revised editions of Unfriendly Skies, three revised editions of Defrauding America, and Drugging America--A Trojan Horse).
Television series were twice considered for his books. The first occasion was when producer Jackie Cooper planned a three-part television series following release of the first edition of Unfriendly Skies and the last occasion was in 1999 when Defrauding America was considered for a continuing television series.
Guest and air safety expert on over 3,000 radio and television shows in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, and Mexico.
Devoted over 30 years to addressing crash-causing aviation problems.
Background for discovering covert activities
Starting in 1989, Stich became a confidant to a large number of CIA and other deep-cover operatives, during which he spent over 2,000 hours in deposition-like questioning, receiving thousands of letters, documents, and affidavits describing and supporting the activities which he writes about in his books and which supplement what he personally discovered as a federal and then private investigator (and as an international airline pilot).
Included in his many insider friends and sources are the heads of former CIA proprietary airlines and financial institutions, pilots who flew arms from the United States and drugs back, people who were involved in drug-money laundering, looting of savings and loans, and other activities ordered by their deep-cover superiors.
This combination of government investigator background and large number of friends and confidants involved in deep-cover activities for the past forty years gives the author an unusual amount and source of information and insight into the normally highly compartmentalized area of covert activities.
Possibly because of his military pilot and airline pilot background, combined with his considerable work in exposing government corruption, dozens of present and former government agents and operatives, former drug traffickers, and others, have provided Stich during the last ten years with huge amounts of data, documentation, and clarification on corrupt activities in government. This is the detailed information that is found in his various books.
=====+++++=====