Robert, an Aerospace Mechanical Engineer, private pilot, and owner of two utility patents, reflects on the wacky inventions of his youth, misadventures, and their near disastrous consequences. Robert, has one son, and is now retired. Robert was born and raised in Clinton, Indiana. He studied aviation, and electronics at Indiana State University, spent three years in the Army Signal Corps, with one year of duty as a radio operator in Vietnam. Robert now resides in southern Alabama with his wife of 41 years, Kathleen.