John Taylor is a private pilot with more than 3500 hours as PIC, in aircraft from a J-3 Cub to a PC-12 Pilatus. Many of his hours were accumulated on over 60 round-trip flights between GMU and New England airports. He will share his experiences flying to and around New England over the past 35 years. From flying the Hudson River corridor to landing on an ice runway in NH, join him in sharing his experiences and observations.

John was born and raised in Greenville, graduating from Greenville High in 1972. He studied physics at Davidson College and did his doctoral research in Massachusetts on antennas for radio astronomy. Since 1983, he has been on the staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he has been a principal investigator with NASA’s high-altitude WB-57 aircraft and been a test director for NASA’s Space Debris studies at the Kwajalein Missile Range in Micronesia. He is currently partially retired, but still works on laser systems for aerospace communications. He flies a Cessna 182 and Piper Arrow out of the Boston area.