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telling the aerospace Story : IsAac Alexander
I was born in Tacoma , Washington . In 1974 my dad was hired to be a police officer for the Port of Seattle — which has jurisdiction over both the Seattle port and SeaTac airport . Our family moved to a home on the southwest side of the airport . We had a 75 percent view of both runways and all of the terminals from our house . I grew up watching planes transit there from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s .
Isaac Alexander
Contact : jetcitystar10 @ gmail . com
My earliest aviation memory is of my first airplane ride on an Alaska Air 727-200 in 1979 to Anchorage , Alaska . My second aviation memory was visiting the Boeing Renton factory in 1984 to see the delivery of the last 727-200 to FedEx and my third memory , which was VERY memorable , was in November of 1984 . A British Airways Supersonic Concorde departed for the first time from SeaTac airport on its roundtrip “ Flight to Nowhere ” – cruising with a planeload of VIP passengers to experience Mach 2 , flying at 50,000 feet . There were hundreds of people along the street of the hill my house was on , photographing the departure . It was amazing ( and LOUD )!
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My first job working in aviation was in the U . S . Navy , where I served from 2004-2010 . I went into the service undesignated and then later chose to be an aviation machinist mate . That title meant I would work on aircraft engines . My first four years of Naval service ,