Background of Captain Rodney Stich.

<body> 60 Years of Sophisticated Aviation Experience The author and activist against corruption in government, Rodney Stich, has an unusual background for exposing corruption in the various government entities that adversely affects the security of the United States and the lives of the men, women and children in America. this information and documentation is of immense value to any group concerned about the spreading cancerous corruption by people in key government positions, including the courts. Naval Aviator Patrol Plane Commander At the age of 17, he joined the U.S. Navy in December 1940 (a year prior to the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941). He was trained and then served as a radioman on PBY seaplanes until the end of 1942. His PBY squadrons were VP-71 and VP-54, and patrolled out of Hawaii and Wake Island. In early 1943, he was selected for Navy pilot training, first going the to University of Georgia at Athens, and then to the Dallas Naval Air Station for primary training in the Steerman "yellow perils," flying out of a Navy field at Grand Prairie, Texas. Upon finishing primary training, he then went to Pensacola, and when asked what type of aircraft he would prefer to train and fly, he selected the PBY Catalina flying boats that he had served in as a radioman. He received his Navy wings in December 1941 at Pensacola Naval Air Station. He was then transferred to the Naval Air Station at Jacksonville, Florida for advance training in the PBY. Flight Instructor in Advance PBY Flying Upon completion of that training, he was selected to remain at the station as a pilot flight instructor in the PBY aircraft. Upon receiving sufficient experience as an instructor, he was assigned to training as a Patrol Plane Commander in the Navy Liberator and Privateer aircraft at the Naval Air Station, Hutchinson, Kansas. After finishing his training and being designated a Patrol Plane Commander (PPC), a crew was assigned to him and he was transferred to Patrol Bombing Squadron 120 at Whidbey Island, Washington. After a period he was transferred to San Diego and then to Tinian. Some months after World War II was over, he received an honorable discharge. It is believed that he was the youngest Patrol Plane Commander in four engine aircraft during World War II. Former president George Bush, Sr. claimed he was the youngest Navy pilot in World War II. That may be, but Stich was the youngest Patrol Plane Commander, a title that is not acquired until several years of flying experience. Stich flew in the Pacific where a few years earlier Amelia Earhart lost her life. the primitive navigation aids on the ground and in the aircraft, and the ease in getting lost, makes it obvious that Amelia Earhart missed the tiny island destination and ran out of fuel. Stich was flying patrols out of Midway Island before the great battle of Midway, missing the battle by being sent to the United States for Navy pilot training. International Airline Captain After the war, he became an airline pilot, and flew for several airlines, the changes due to the frequent furloughs of pilots during slow periods. Among the airlines for which he flew were: Pioneer Airlines, Dallas, flying DC-3 aircraft, until he left in the early part of 1951 to seek a pilot's position in California. In July 1951, he was hired by Transocean Airlines, an airline that the Saturday Evening Post wrote a three-series article called, "he Daring Young Men of Transocean Airlines." Because of Transocean's international operations, the flight operations covered many unusual incidents and type of operations. For instance, he flew several DC-4 trips from Oakland to New Delhi, India, carrying 1600 monkeys for delivery to the Midwest where they were used for the Salk polio vaccine program. He flew Moslem pilgrims to Mecca from various Middle East locations (Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Teheran, Abadan, sometimes landing in the desert outside of Mecca. During one such operation in 1953, while residing at a hotel in Abadan, Iran, he was caught up in the CIA-initiated revolution that toppled Mossadegh and brought into power the Shah. The Iranians has previously ordered the departure of British and Americans, and Stich and his small group of airmen were only tolerated because they were flying Moslems to Mecca. When the revolution occurred, Stich and his small group were at great physical risk. With the help of a Dutch national responsible for security, this small group had a machine-gun escort to their aircraft for an immediate departure. During his flying days for the airlines, Stich was captain on virtually every type of piston aircraft flown by the airlines since the end of World War II. These included, for instance, DC-3, DC-4, C-46, Martin 202, Convair 340, Lockheed Constellation, and Boeing Stratocruiser. During a two year period during the busy summer months, he flew as captain for Japan Airlines, where his copilots were former Japanese military pilots with whom the U.S. Navy did combat. His Japanese pilot license is the low number 170, one of the first pilots licensed by Japan. Among the airlines for which he flew during furloughs included Seaboard & Western (Seaboard & World); Cal Eastern; Cal Central; and several small charter airlines flying gamblers from San Francisco to Reno. All types of emergency situations were part of these activities, including for instance: engine fires and engine failures in flight and during takeoff; shutdown of all destination and alternate airports by fog on the North Atlantic run; un-forecast high winds on long over-water flights that made reaching an airport questionable. Stich has a book that describes his life and the perils he encountered. Joining the Federal Aviation Administration In 1962, when his primary airline, Transocean Airlines, declared bankruptcy, Stich sent a letter to the FAA inquiring about a position as inspector on the airlines; he was promptly contacted, hired, and assigned to the Los Angeles office. His duties included anything involved operational safety. He conducted flight checks of airline pilots, issued aircraft ratings to airline pilots, made 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. 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. After about one year, he was approached and asked to take an assignment to correct the conditions responsible for the worst series of airline crashes in the nations' history, and primarily the serious problems at United Airlines training and competency-check center at Denver. At that time United Airlines had experienced more airline disasters than all the other airlines combined. Discovering Serious Safety Problems and Corruption Related to Continuing Series of Airline Disasters Stich discovered the most serious safety problems and criminal acts that he had ever seen in his flying career. Key people at the United Airlines Flight Standards office in Denver were denying to pilots and flight engineers the legally required training and then falsifying government required reports that falsely stated the training and competency checks had been completed. These were the cause of the many airline disasters that the airline was experiencing. Stich discovered, as many federal inspectors discovered and experienced earlier, that FAA management: Knew of the crash-related pattern of air safety and criminal acts by key management personnel at United Airlines. Instructed inspectors not to file reports of air safety or criminal violations that were discovered at United Airlines. This and similar misconduct made possible most of the many crashes experienced by United Airlines over a 20 year period. Removed from the official government records and returned official reports of these problems to the reporting inspectors, telling that that these reports were not wanted, and that they would make the office look bad when there was an accident investigation. Destroyed inspectors' reports that revealed the serious violations at United Airlines. Harassed and threatened federal inspectors who continued to report the accident-causing air safety and criminal violations. Took retaliatory actions against federal inspectors who took required corrective actions, such as conducting a record inspection opposed by United management personnel, reporting a crew members needing corrective training for such problems as high-sink-rate approaches, poor knowledge of the aircraft, poor pilot performance. These were not academic problems; people were dying horrible deaths in crashes caused by the problems that we knew existed, and that were being blocked from being corrected by the culture or arrogance and corruption within certain segments of the FAA. FAA management was complicit in the criminal acts, and repeatedly blocked Stich and other competent inspectors from either reporting the problems or acting upon them. FAA management officials in the Los Angeles division office were also complicit, and refused to act when Stich brought the matters to their attention. The gravity of the continuing crashes and deaths, and the culture within the FAA that covered up for the problems, caused Stich to exercise the law in such a manner that he acted as an independent prosecutor. He conducted hearings over a four month period, subpoenaing FAA officials, and providing evidence that the corruption existed and that the corruption was closely related to the airline disasters occurring at United Airlines. Some of these problems were system wide in the FAA, and responsible for fatal crashes at other airlines. Instead of a judge presiding over the hearings as in a federal or state court, a lawyer from the FAA administrator's office acted as the hearing officer. Stich submitted a closing brief, which was following by the hearing officer covering up. During the hearings, three more airline disasters occurred, one of them being a United Airlines crash at Salt Lake City where 43 people were cremated alive. The direct causes of the crash and deaths, as stated by the NTSB report, were (a) the captain's dangerous high sink rate; (b) the flight engineer's poor knowledge; and (c) the crew's poor evacuation of the passengers. The political NTSB board, however, omitted from the report the most important problem, being the internal FAA problems and the problems at United Airlines. After the hearing, the FAA retaliated against Stich, and he was forced to leave government service, writing that he refused to work under such corrupt conditions. While he was an FAA air safety inspector, among his many reports and recommendations, he reported the dangers of hijackings and the two common-sense steps that would have prevented almost every hijacking that subsequently occurred, including the hijackings of September 11, 2001. The deep-seated culture within the FAA, including malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance, resulted in the repeated disregard of the reports and recommendations of the highly qualified FAA air safety inspectors. As detailed in the third edition of Unfriendly Skies, this conduct caused or made possible the September 11, 2001, hijackings, earlier fatal hijackings, and many other fatal air disasters. A prior airline crash into New York City that generated worldwide attention, a United Airlines crash, arose from this culture of FAA misconduct. Hired by Flying Tigers After leaving the FAA, Flying Tigers hired Stich to prepare the flight operating procedures and pilot operating manual for the stretched DC-8s that the airline had on order. Stich used this occasion to introduce a number of his prior safety recommendations, which were adopted by the airline. After approximately two years, completing the manual and the arrival of the first DC-8, Stich's employment was terminated. During this period, Stich has invested in real estate, buying distressed properties and improving them. He had acquired about $10 million in real estate by 1986, starting with a $400 investment in a house in Hayward, California. Airline Crashes Continued, Motivating Stich to Again Act The internal FAA problems bred a continuing series of airline disasters, which continued after Stich left the FAA. Seeking to help correct the situation, Stich filed lawsuits in the federal courts against the FAA and NTSB. These were blocked by motion of Department of Justice lawyers, who had been covering up since Stich informed FBI and DOJ personnel of the problems while Stich was a federal agent. Circumventing Cover-Ups With a Book and Radio-TV Appearances In possession of such important information that could be used to take corrective actions to halt many of the easily preventable airline disasters, Stich authored and published the first of several books, the first being released in 1978, the first edition of Unfriendly Skies. that book is now in the fourth edition and called, Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries. With the release of the first book, Stich started appearing as guest and expert on radio and television shows in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, and Mexico. Today, the list is over 3,000 appearances. 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. Publicity Caused Other Government Agents to Contact Stich With Information on Corruption A few years after Stich started appearing as guest on radio and television shows, other former or present government agents started contacting Stich with information on corruption in other government operations. These sources include present and former agents of the FBI, DEA, Customs, CIA, including former heads of secret CIA airlines and secret CIA financial operations, who were part of covert activities in which corrupt and criminal activities were occurring. Stich in his Beech Twin Bonanza (D50E) aircraft before government personnel (Justice Department and federal judges as described in Unfriendly Skies and Defrauding America) seized his business properties, his home, his planes and his assets. These corrupt activities were assisted by corrupt CIA-FBI proprietary law firms and fronts. The author's plane (Beech D-50E Twin Bonanza), before federal judges took his plane, his home, his businesses, his properties, his assets, his sole source of income, in a bizarre scheme to silence his exposure activities. For details concerning this taking and how it involves federal judges and Justice Department lawyers blocking the exposure of widespread corruption in the courts and other government operations. The sequence of the tactics were described in a lawsuit he filed in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Under Continuous Attacks by Lawyers and Judges Starting in 1982, and continuing at this time, over 100 lawyers, law firms, California and federal judges, misused the courts, repeatedly violating state and federal laws and constitutional protections. violating criminal statutes, trying to silence Stich. Several of the previously uploaded pages referring to these attacks are listed here: Sequence of the attacks. Sequence of the legal attacks. Using a possible wife-murderer to silence Stich and seize the books exposing the corruption. The latest attempt by Pasadena lawyer Guerrini to seize the books before the public learns of the corruption. The Most Loyal and Constant Companion Through it All Throughout a great part of the traumatic attacks upon Stich, he had one very loyal companion, his only loyal companion. He was also physical protection when several of Stich's sources of information were killed or found dead under mysterious circumstances. That companion was Midas, his German Shepherd. After over ten years of companionship, which provided considerable support to Stich during great personal and financial losses, Midas passed away on April 3, 1997. Unless one had that kind of relationship with a near-human-like four-legged creature, during such difficult times, that bond may be difficult to understand. At Midas' death, grief-stricken Stich wrote a short memorial for Midas: Good bye, old pal, you've been my closest and most faithful companion for the past ten years, sticking with me through very difficult times. I will always remember my German Shepherd, Midas. Your loving friend, Rodney. Most Loyal Friend, When Others Scattered No one can imagine the personal and financial harm that was inflicted continuously, day after day, for many years, upon Stich in an attempt to keep him from exposing the corruption he and his many other insiders sought to report and correct. His friends scattered, afraid to be associated with him. But he had one loyal companion throughout this period, who recognized his feelings, his stress, and his tears: Nearing the end of his life, Stich continues the fight against the arrogance and corruption in government, and the legal attacks from the legal fraternity that continues its efforts to silence him. He faces an uglier enemy than any he faced in World War II. More information on these legal attacks and the termination of all legal rights and protections can be found at one of the many legal pages on this Internet site. The judicial attacks upon him, to silence his reporting of corruption in government, can be found in the various books and material on this and related web sites. Sampling of the Fraud-Related Tragedies Stich Sought to Prevent All forms of human tragedies have been inflicted upon the people of the United States from the corruption discovered by the people behind this site−and made possible by enablers in and out of government. The below pictures are only a sampling of the consequences from the documented corruption that are able to be portrayed graphically. The tragedies in other areas resulting from the corruption, cover-ups, and public indifference, are not shown here. United Airlines crash into New York City, the world's worst at that time. Withheld from the Amererica public were the reports by federal safety inspectors-investigators showing a continuing pattern of corruption, fraud, criminal alteration of major government required records−and the standard abuse of those few inspectors attempting to require the airline management to comply with industry standards and clear requirements of federal aviation safety requirements−and FAA management to require compliance. None of the guilty, the enablers, to these and the continuing fraud-related crashes ever were held accountable for the hundreds of deaths that they enabled to occur. These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Forewarned downing of TWA Flight 800 (and U.S. Embassies in Africa, as detailed in the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, and the Mafia). Forewarned bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa: Not Providing any Help Euphoric Blissful Ignorance−Enablers of Great American Tragedies Another description of Stich's background. Email address for the author and activist against corruption in government: stich@unfriendlyskies.com. For more information relating to the author and his activities put "Rodney Stich" into a search engine such as Google or yahoo.com. The links run into many tens of thousands. Download DVD videos from amazon to rent or to buy, onto your Windows XP operation system computer. For more information, click here. To order a DVD video download, click on the following amazon link: Cellphone and service deal from amazon.com, with 30-day return if not satisfied. Consider placing orders for any product from amazon.com through the following links. There is no extra cost or delay in doing this, while it provides us a small commission to help fund this site and our public-spirited efforts. 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