Home Page of Kimsey Fowler

Some of the photographs in the accompanying pages have been computer altered, but this one is real. Two friends and I flew our Pterodactyl ultralight airplanes into the crater of Mount St. Helens in Washington State. A 35mm camera equipped with an auto-winder was attached to the bottom of the wing and a remote triggering device in the cockpit allowed me to take a whole roll of film without landing. This particular photo was the best in the series. It was taken from approximately 11,000 feet above sea level over the northwest rim of the crater. The Pterodactyl ultralight is powered by a 35 HP two cycle engine and has a cruising speed of about 50 MPH.

I am Kimsey Fowler, the crazy guy holding onto the stick. I grew up in Dublin, Georgia, but lived most of my life in Seattle, Washington where I was a software engineer at Boeing on the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) project. The IUS is a boost rocket for satellites and is deployed from either the cargo bay of the space shuttle, or from atop a Titan Boost Rocket. I was responsible for our space flight simulator and our command, control, and communications software used at Cape Canaveral, Florida to support testing and launch activities. On July 26, 1996 our software organization was assessed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University at SEI CMM Level 5.

Since then I've been living in various countries in Europe where I'm learning some new languages, working on my family history, and traveling. I've traveled to about 30 countries and visited my 50th state, Kansas, in June 2001.

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