{"id":14005,"date":"2019-10-15T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14005"},"modified":"2019-10-15T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:33:19","slug":"piper-appoints-former-nasa-astronaut-winston-scott-to-the-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/piper-appoints-former-nasa-astronaut-winston-scott-to-the-board-of-directors\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Piper Appoints Former NASA Astronaut, Winston Scott to the Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Piper Aircraft has announced that is has appointed former\nNASA Astronaut and Aeronautical Engineer, Captain Winston Scott to its Board of\nDirectors effective October 10, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Winston-Scottedit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14006\" width=\"225\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Winston-Scottedit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Winston-Scottedit-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption><em>Captain Winston Scott<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to welcome Captain Scott to the Piper\nboard and especially value his aviation experience and expertise&#8221;, said\nSimon Caldecott, President and CEO of Piper Aircraft, Inc. &#8220;Captain Scott\nis joining Piper Aircraft at an exciting time as production of our training\naircraft continues to increase. His knowledge of flight training and passion\nfor education will prove beneficial as we continue to support the world&#8217;s\nleading flight training institutions. The addition of Winston complements our\nboard of directors&#8217; skills and experiences, and we are confident that he will\nprovide valuable perspectives as we continue to execute our product strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his NASA career, Winston is a retired U.S.\nNavy Captain and aviator. He entered Naval Aviation Officers Candidate School\nin 1973 and completed flight training and was designated a naval aviator in\n1974. He earned his Master of Science in aeronautical engineering with\navionics. During his Navy career, Captain Scott served as a helicopter pilot\nflying the SH-2F Helicopter. He later served a tour of duty as a fighter pilot\nflying the F-14 Tomcat fighter\/interceptor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piper Aircraft has announced that is has appointed former NASA Astronaut and Aeronautical Engineer, Captain Winston Scott to its Board of Directors effective October 10, 2019. &#8220;We are pleased to welcome Captain Scott to the Piper board and especially value his aviation experience and expertise&#8221;, said Simon Caldecott, President and CEO of Piper Aircraft, Inc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14007,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions\/14007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}