Robert Gandt Biography

Bob Gandt has two passions in life: flying and writing. He published his first story at age sixteen, the same year he soloed an airplane. Since then, he has logged over 25,000 hours and written sixteen books and countless articles. Gandt's flying career has been as diverse as the subjects of his books. He has been a Navy fighter/attack pilot, weapons test pilot, flight instructor, air show performer, and airline captain. At age twenty, he became the youngest aviator in the U.S. Navy. He completed over 300 carrier landings and nearly 2,000 hours in the A-4 Skyhawk as a carrier-based attack pilot. In his 1997 book, "Bogeys and Bandits" (Viking Penguin), Gandt revisits a Navy F/A-18 training squadron at the same base where he had trained years before. In 1965, Gandt started his career as a Pan American World Airways pilot. For the next 26 years, he flew around the globe and was domiciled in places such as New York, San Francisco, Berlin, and Hong Kong. His 1995 book, "Skygods," recounts the rapid decline and eventual crash of the once-great Pan Am.

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