Jerry "AirJer" Holcomb

EMail: jholcomb@pacifier.com
Home: Vancouver, WA
Club Membership: Portland Skyknights, Oregon
Associations: Academy of Model Aeronautics, Dist. XI AVP, Scale Contest Board.
R/C experience: 21+ years of RC, CL, and FF modeling, with a current interest in Electric power and model autogyros.

Jerry likes to work on more than one project at a time, and is currently paying various degrees of attention to a wing upgrade of his modified Custom Privateer, several RC Autogyros, an electric Dewoitine D.338 tri-motor airliner, yet another Sikorsky S-39B amphibian, and he has hopes of getting to a DeHavilland Dash-8 airliner and to a really big Consolidated B-24 before too long.

Naturally, he likes lots of inactive projects stored away for 'later' including: a 1/4 scale P-39 Aircobra, assorted helicopters, an original design 1/3 scale Macchi M-52 Schneider Cup seaplane, a Yellow Aircraft P-47, and probably several others that even he wants to forget about.   He has to sandwich these projects in while also flying the "Blazer Blimp" as "Commander Holcomb" at the Portland Blazers ball games...

Jerry was the first to complete a successful public flight of an RC helicopter in the Portland area, way back in 1972.    He was the last pilot to fly the full-size Taylor "Aerocar" before it was placed in permanent exhibit at the Seattle Museum of Flight (Boeing) in 1985.

Jerry is an accomplished full sized flyer, holding a commercial pilots license with SEL+SES+MEL+ instrument ratings.   He completed 16 years as a flight instructor, and has flown over 50 different fixed wing, helicopters, and ultralights.  and has constructed and tested 3 different original design experimental airplanes.