Speaker

 

This week’s speaker Bryan Douglass is a Goodfellow and a good friend, according to Mike Schauf. Bryan is a self-employed engineer specializing in environmental clean-up by trade and a pilot by avocation. He will tell the story of Miss Montana’s flight to Normandy in 2019.
 
Bryan started flying late in life, at age 48, but developed a serious case of the flying bug. After earning his private pilot certificate, he built an RV-10, a high performance kit airplane, and has flown it extensively for nearly eight years from coast to coast and Canada to Mexico. Bryan is one of the two original leaders of the Miss Montana project and one of only four crew members who were on board for the entire five+ week mission to DAKs Over Normandy. Flying as a qualified SIC (Second in Command) pilot, Bryan added multi-engine land, tailwheel, commercial, and DC3 type ratings to his flying resumé.     
 
Bryan has been married for 36 years to his wife Dawn, with whom he has three children, plus an extra son that came into their lives (another story), resulting in their five grandchildren.
                          
During his ‘free time’ when not flying, Bryan is working diligently on a book telling the compelling story of the Miss Montana to Normandy project.