Pilot Spotlight........

Anthony "K-Bob" Sweeney

USAF F-15 Fighter Jet Pilot

Prattville, Alabama

James Anthony Sweeney (aka K-Bob) began flying models in high school, but took a 13 year hiatus when he joined the Air Force due to lack of time for hobbies.  He got back into modeling in November of 2008 while a student at ACSC and hasn’t looked back.  He now has 6 planes + 2 projects and has competed in 7 pattern flying contests (SPA and AMA).   He has earned six 1^st place finishes, and is the SPA Novice points champion for 2009.

Hometown: Sharon Grove, KY

Family:
Wife - Melodee from Panama City, FL
4 Sons - Jordan(17), Jerad (15), Joshua (7), and Jameson (3 mos)

Education:  Bachelors - Mathematics - Western Kentucky University (1995)
Masters - Aerospace Engineering - University of Alabama (2006)
Masters - Military Operational Art and Science - ACSC (2009)

Hobbies - Pattern Flying, Astronomy, Basketball, Acoustic Guitar, Southern Gospel Music, Reading

Current Airplanes - Flown with Futaba 7C 2.4g Radio
Great Planes Venus 40, with O.S. .46 AX
1978 original Bridi Kaos 40, with Evolution .60 NX
World Models Intruder, with O.S. .91 Four Stroke
Scale Cermark Su-26 MX, with O.S. .91 FX 2-stroke
Park Zone T-28 Electric
Park Zone Radian Glider Electric - w/Spectrum 5c radio
(Projects) 2 x Hanno Prettner Calypso’s each with YS .61 2-strokes, retracts, tuned pipes
Next Airplane… Great Planes "Sequence" Electric pattern plane

Occupation: Air Force Officer, F-15C pilot
Current Station: Maxwell AFB, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

Anthony entered the Air Force in 1995 through ROTC at Western Kentucky University where he majored in Mathematics.  He went to Sheppard AFB, Tx for Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training, earning distinguished graduate in December 1996.  He was also the Top Gun recipient at F-15C training at Tyndall AFB, FL in September 1997.
He flew as an F-15 pilot in England from 1997-99 where he flew 210 hours of combat sorties in Iraq and Serbia.  He then went to Alaska to fly F-15s at Elmendorf AFB.  He moved to Moody AFB, GA in 2002 to instruct in the T-38C in the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals course.  After Moody, he went back to flying F-15Cs at Eglin AFB, FL.
He has over 2200 total flying hours including 1200 in the F-15C and 600 in the T-38C.  He will make a career in the Air Force and has no idea where he wants to retire, but it will be somewhere close to an R/C flying field.

                                     'Atta-Boy K-Bob!........from your FCF friends.