Peter Garrison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Peter Garrison

American journalist

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1943

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: journalist, aircraft pilot

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Peter Garrison

  • Peter Garrison is an American journalist and amateur aircraft designer/builder.
  • He was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1943, and received a BA in English from Harvard College in 1965.In 1968–1973, while living in Tarzana, California, he designed and built an all-metal, two-seat, single-engine low-wing monoplane.
  • The design was influenced by the T-18 of John Thorp and the PL-2 of Ladislao Pazmany, both California airplane designer/builders.
  • Garrison called the plane Melmoth after an 1820 Gothic novel, Melmoth the Wanderer.
  • It was notable for unusually long range and for Mr.
  • Garrison's lack of academic qualifications for designing it.
  • With his companion, television documentary producer Nancy Salter, Mr.
  • Garrison used the aircraft to fly to Europe, Japan and South America.
  • The 1976 Pacific crossing was the first nonstop flight from the United States to Japan by a homebuilt aircraft. In 1981 he began design work on an enlarged fuselage for Melmoth.
  • In 1982, however, the original airplane was destroyed at Orange County (California) Airport (now John Wayne) when a landing Cessna collided with it.
  • The completely redesigned Melmoth 2 first flew in 2002.
  • It is constructed of glass- and carbon-fiber-reinforced composites and has four seats; the rear seats face aft, an arrangement that reduces the required cabin size and center-of-gravity range.
  • The airplane, which has retractable landing gear, large hydraulically operated Fowler flaps and a 200 hp turbocharged Continental engine salvaged from the first Melmoth, is based at Whiteman Airport in Los Angeles.
  • Like its predecessor, it has a cruising range of more than 3,000 miles.Peter Garrison is a free-lance writer.
  • He contributes two monthly columns, Aftermath and Technicalities, to Flying magazine, for which he has written since 1968.
  • With David Pinella, he co-founded AeroLogic, a company that creates and sells computer software programs to analyze fluid dynamics. Mr.
  • Garrison has 4,000 hours of flight time.
  • He holds a single-/multi-engine commercial pilot license with instrument, Learjet, helicopter, seaplane, glider, gyroplane and hot-air balloon ratings.He is the great-grandson of the Armenian author Muratsan.
  • He and Ms.
  • Salter have a son, Nicholas, born in 1981, and a daughter, Lily, born in 1988.Mr.
  • Garrison has no connection to Craig Shaw Gardner, a prolific science-fiction writer, born in 1949, who writes under the pseudonym "Peter Garrison."

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