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Col Donald Walbrecht
Colonel Don Walbrecht (the eleventh pilot of the Mach-3 SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft) served thirty years as an air force officer, participating in advanced-aircraft development activities, leadin...view moreColonel Don Walbrecht (the eleventh pilot of the Mach-3 SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft) served thirty years as an air force officer, participating in advanced-aircraft development activities, leading Pentagon operational programming and budgeting matters, and holding transpacific and transatlantic staff and command positions. He earned three graduate degrees, including a PhD from the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, England, and completed three professional military courses at the Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. He currently serves as professor of aviation management for the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho where he supervises graduate-level military research projects. He is the author of three earlier books in this Hessian John series as well as a scientific-fiction poetic romaunt, On Silent Wing, and a doctoral dissertation, “The Diplomatic History of US Airpower in the United Kingdom.”view less