Edward H. Phillips is an American writer/historian, aviation industry reporter, and aviator who has specialized in the general aviation industry of the central United States—with particular emphasis on the aviation history of Wichita, Kansas and its aircraft manufacturers.[1][2][3][4]
Background and credentialsedit
Phillips earned a degree in journalism, with a minor in aviation, from the University of North Dakota. A Federal Aviation Administration-certified flight instructor and advanced ground instructor, he earned a commercial pilot license, with instrument and multi-engine ratings for single-and multi-engine land airplanes; and an Airframe and Powerplant aircraft mechanic license.[1][2][3]
Careeredit
Phillips is most noted as an aviation writer and historian, with numerous publications, including nine books and over 1,000 articles on aviation and aerospace topics.[2][3] He is particularly noted as the principal author of books and articles on the early aircraft manufacturers of Wichita, Kansas—the "Air Capital City."[2][4]
Phillips' writing and historical research has appeared in numerous books,[11][12][4][6] magazines and journals, online, in documentary films, and in public presentations.[1][3][6][13]
Booksedit
Travel Air: Wings Over the Prairie. Flying Books (1982), ISBN 0911139001
Volume 25 - 1980, p.268: "Navigation in the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour"
Volume 27 - 1982, p.286: "Mystery Ship"
Volume 29 - 1984, p.294: "Staggerwing"
Volume 30 - 1985, p.24: "Woolaroc!"
Volume 56, No. 3 - Fall 2011: "Travel Air Mystery Ship"
Online articlesedit
(partial listings)
"Edward H_ Phillips, 'Barnstorming Wichita’s Aviation Past,'", the collected sequence of articles (starting with "C-34 Airmaster") written by Edward H. Phillips, for the Wings Over Kansas aviation news and history website
Search: "Edward H. Phillips," (articles list) in HistoryNet.com (including Aviation History magazine)
"Edward Phillips, author, King Air magazine (article list with teasers, linking to full texts of Phillips' articles)
Film and videoedit
Cessna: A Master's Expression, 2007, Cessna Aircraft Company and TZ Productions, debuted 12 September 2008 on KPTS-TV (subsequent distributor), derived largely from Phillips' book of the same title, with Phillips' as the principal narrator and historian.
Wichita: The Air Capital by KPTS-TV and Chris Franks, 2020. Phillips is the principal historian interviewed and aired in the program.
^ abcd"Aviation Programs by Author Historian Edward H. Phillips – Saturday, October 25th & Sunday, October 26th", October 2014, Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, Wichita, KS
^ abcdeChance, Carl (Editor, Air Capital Report,) Profile: "Edward H. Phillips"
^ abcBarnes, Sparky: "A Beechcraft Historian," in "Beech Party: Starship, Staggerwings and STOL," November 7, 2021, General Aviation News. retrieved December 30, 2022
^Tarnay, Thomas N.:"Aircraft Designs Subjected to FAA Special Certification Review - Mitsubishi MU-2 and Beechcraft Bonanza: The Role of the SCR in Aircraft Design Certification and Implications on Federal Preemption" (Phillips article cited in footnote 10), Journal of Air Law and Commerce,
Volume 62, Issue 2, retrieved December 31, 2022