Rod Lewin was born in Brisbane, Australia. His acclaimed autobiography, Steel Spine, Iron Will, which chronicles his recovery from paralysis after a near-fatal plane crash, has been in constant demand for over two decades. Rod has spent the last thirty-five years as a professional aviator. He has had a love of seaplanes his entire life, and has flown them to the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland, the far outback of Western Australia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, Greece and the Greek Islands, and most recently in Alaska, as well as flying DC-3s, 727s, and 737s in the United States. T...