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David M. Vanderhoof – History Contributor
David grew up around aircraft. His father was Base Civil Engineer for the USAF 913th TAG at Willow Grove, PA. His first toy was an airplane; from that point on he never stopped looking up. David graduated from Temple University with a degree in Military History and Diplomacy, focusing on the air wars of the Middle East. Realizing that there was no money in knowing about the Air Orders of Battle of Israel and the rest of the Middle Eastern States, and he needed to eat, he eventually landed in a career as a marketing professional.
With the power of an e-mail, David became a weekly contributor to the show and eventually co-host in training. He is also the subject of a “Code-Sharing” agreement between the Geeks and the Australia Desk / Plane Crazy Down Under podcast.
David is an avid plastic modeler, photographer, and reader. You will always find him paging through books looking up some obscure piece of information, or “geeking” out on the latest Sci-Fi.
David can be found at his blog “What Just Flew By?” (www.whatjustflewby.blogspot.com) or http://Twitter.com/DMVanderhoof.
Dan Webb
Dan Webb has had a passion for aviation and airlines ever since he took his first commercial flight when he was three years old. Nowadays, Dan is a college student who just finished his freshman year at business school. He pens the blog Things in the Sky, part of BoardingArea.com, where he shares his opinions about the industry. You can reach him at dan@danwebb.us or at twitter.com/danwebbage.
Max Flight
Max has been an engine guy in the aviation industry for over 30 years, and is the creator of the Thirty Thousand Feet aviation directory. That site started back in 1996 as a single short page, and has grown (some would say pathologically) to include links to a huge number of aviation resources that span commercial, military, and general aviation Along with the companion Thirty Thousand Feet Blog, Max authors the Travel Security Blog which focuses on airline and airport security.
Max is proof that you don’t need to be a pilot to be an airplane geek. Which is good because he’s too cheap to ever get a pilot’s license, let alone hold any financial interest in an airplane more expensive than a desktop display model. Reach Max at twitter.com/MaxFlight or at maxflight.30000feet@gmail.com.
Courtney Miller
Courtney, on the other hand, is both a pilot and an airplane geek, but no longer an active part of the podcast. With 10 years of aviation experience, including 5 years in the right seat of a CRJ-700, Courtney has moved from passenger airlines, to express carriers, to aircraft manufacturing. In addition to his countless duties flying a desk, he also manages the Airline Empires community, and the Airline Empires Blog. Fortunately for the Airplane Geeks, Courtney is no longer an active member but you can still hear him occasionally with his “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” segment. For those of you who can’t get enough Courtney, he also participates in a non-aviation podcast at TheGuysPodcast.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at Miller22.
You can get in touch with any of us at thegeeks@airplanegeeks.com or through our listener line at (361) GEEKS01 or or (361) 433-5701.
