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JIM WINKEL:
P A T R I C I A
of Aviation Specialties Unlimited
A
lthough he has no memory of it, Jim
Winkel's family arrived in California the
way thousands of others had - via U.S.
Route 66. Winkel's family emigrated from
Canada when his father's work took him to the San
Francisco Bay area. That's where Winkel grew up, but
when he was 13, his father, who worked for Shell Oil,
moved the family to Houston. It was there, Winkel said,
that he "came to understand the concept of humidity."
He laughs about the memory of the first time he mowed
the grass after arriving in Houston. Within minutes, he
was dripping with sweat, and said, "Houston was quite a
change, having come from the dry West."
Winkel joined the Army after high school with the
hope of attending flight school, but that didn't happen
for three years. His desire to be a pilot - which he'd had
since a young age - was confirmed on his first airplane
ride. When his family was relocating to Houston, they
stopped at the Grand Canyon, went on a sightseeing
flight, and Winkel was hooked. Later, in Houston, a
family friend who was a pilot and aircraft builder would
take him flying. "That sealed the deal," Winkel said.
In the meantime, while waiting for flight school, he
worked as a ground control radar technician at Fort
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Hood practicing his craft. Then he was accepted to flight
school at Fort Rucker in Alabama. He spent 20 years in
the Army, flying mostly rotary-wing aircraft, but some
fixed-wing, as well. He was an instructor pilot for 13
years and flew Blackhawks, Hueys and a C-23B Sherpa,
a cargo airplane manufactured by Short Brothers that is
now retired from service.
Winkel retired from the Army in 1998 and wondered
what he was going to do. He had started a small company
while still in the Army to bring night vision technology
out of the military world to the commercial world.
"I was basically moonlighting," he said. "At the
time, the Army was giving away surplus aircraft like
crazy to law enforcement. It was like the Wild West. I
recognized there was a need for that technology with law
enforcement, and it seemed like a natural way to start a
new career."
Winkel recently noticed the maturation of law
enforcement with aviation assets when he attended
the recent Airborne Law Enforcement Association
Convention.
"I'm amazed by how mature flight operations have
become," he said. "The men and women running the
operations are phenomenal. They run it like a business,
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