ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Chuck Dixon, Author of Chasing a Whirlwind

Charles (Chuck) Dixon, as his aviation peers call him, has 75 years in the aviation business. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mississippi State University and a Master of Science Degree from the University of Southern California both with a major in Aeronautical Engineering. He is also an Instrument Rated Pilot and has a master’s degree in Business Administration. That did not come easy. Chuck’s life began in 1930 during the Great Depression. Finances to accomplish all the above were not available, but his parents did teach him determination to accomplish his goals.

World War II began and ended during his school years in Whitehaven, Tennessee. He was inspired by aviation that was on the ground and in the air. During high school he joined the Naval Air Reserve. He served as an aircraft mechanic for two years during the Korean War. His first wife was a great young lady that helped and encouraged him for 44 years in his aviation career.

Chuck took advantage of the GI Bill and began studies at Mississippi State College when released from active duty. His aeronautical engineering career consisted of working for two major aircraft companies for 36 years plus 31 years with his own company. Chuck demonstrated his creative ability by being the prime inventor for five United States Patents. The last two, obtained while doing business in his own company, have been proven with full-scale flight tests. Chuck has written and published many technical papers. Much help for this book was provided by his second wife, Frieda, and by being a member of the Christian Authors Guild and Word Weavers International.

Chuck knows his career in aviation was planned by God. The book makes it clear, God taught Chuck by his mistakes and led him to make right choices.

Frieda Dixon, Author of Born Three Times

Frieda lived a life of second chances. She left upstate New York in the 60s to begin a new life in Georgia. The training she received at Massey Business College led her to work with Colonial Pipeline Company where she met her first husband. Two children later, she was diagnosed with an incurable liver disease. Ten years of widowhood followed the death of her husband. At times, she thought her life was over, but God had other plans.

Even though she might not have long to live, Frieda enrolled in New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to earn a degree in Religious Education. For five years she worked as a Minister of Education before her advancing liver disease required medical retirement.

A second marriage to a young-at-heart man who supported her through a successful liver transplant, gave her a second chance at life. Frieda’s transplant made her realize the brevity of life and made her determined to make the most of the years God had given her. She and her husband Charles are recharging their retirement years—he as an inventor, and she as a writer, blogger, and speaker.