From: an old friend on Jan 18, 7:56 pm

wrote:
From: K4YZ on Jan 11, 1:47 pm

When YOU present some actual proof of your 18-year "active
duty time in the USMC" "we" may stop calling you "Dudly"
(after the fake air carrier pilot mentioned by pseudonym
in Ernest K. Gann's autobiograpical book "Fate is the
Hunter").

Is the the same as the Dudly Do Right chatacter (which is where I
thought the nick name for steve came from the era a abit before my my
time but not eneough before before to have realy gotten into the
history book

No, Mark, it is NOT "Dudly Do-Right" from the cartoon character
(although there IS a cartoonish behavior that Robeson affects).

I explained the "Dudly" name between September 1 and 3, 2005,
and you will find that under the thread nominally called
"Laying Waste to Frankie of Silliland."

Ernest K. Gann was a prolific author as well as a long-time
air carrier pilot ("airlines pilot") and his novels have
been made into at least four major motion pictures. Gann
used a pseudonym of "Dudley" for the #3 seniority-rating
pilot hired on at Matson Airlines...who had NEVER achieved
either a commercial pilot's license or a multi-engine rating
(essential for 4-engine passenger air carriers of the time).
Gann's "Dudley" FAKED his way into the airline (!), taking
advantage of this start-up of the Matson ship passenger line
right after WW2 not being that fussy about checking
credentials. When discovered, "Dudley" was fired. However,
the real "Dudley" talked his way onto another start-up
airline and subsequently killed himself and his passengers
in an aircraft crash at that airline. Through ineptitude in
flying skills which he had tried to fake as well...

You can find references to the book "Fate Is The Hunter" on
an Internet search, using either that title or "Ernest K.
Gann" as search words. Gann died in 1991 on San Juan Island
(his home) in the Puget Sound region of Washington. "Fate Is
The Hunter" was made into a so-so motion picture starring
Glenn Ford. The book and its tales are much better reading.

I picked "Dudly" as the pseudonym because that is what
Robeson has done in here...largely FAKING his way through,
posing as "knowledgeable" when he doesn't know jack about
radio. Neither is Dudly multi-engine rated nor can
he be "pilot in command" of a single-engine general aviation
aircraft. [he tried to impress others of his "pilot in
command" "title" in messages posted in here]