Capt Jimbo attended Plant High School in Tampa, Florida where he was the quarterback for a championship football team. After graduating from Florida State University, where he was a noteworthy wrestler, he entered Naval Flight School at N.A.S. Pensacola. He flew the Douglas A-4 Skyhawks as a Tactical and Nuclear Weapons delivery pilot for Marine Attack Squadron-331. During the height of the Viet Nam War, the push to train pilots was frantic to say the least. While on a training flight with a newly winged pilot in the fleet, Capt Jim was forced to make a high speed, low altitude ejection from 50 feet at 400 M.P.H.
Because of the permanent injuries he sustained, Capt Jimbo was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1973 at the rank of Captain - - thus Capt Jimbo. While undergoing many surgeries and years of physical rehabilitation, he worked as a Territory and District Sales Manager for Monsanto, Shell Oil and the DuPont Company. He augmented his professional career by completing his M.B.A. in Industrial Management and started a small barnstorming business on the side with his first old Navy Stearman. While giving rides and towing banners, Capt Jim has amassed over 3,500 hours in tail-wheel aircraft. Probably 50 percent of my flight time has been inverted. He has flown over twenty-five different types of military and general aviation airplanes including T-34's, T-28's, T-2's A-4's, AT-6/SNJ's, Stearman's, P-51 Mustangs in addition to Pipers, Cessna's and Mooney's.
In addition to his ejection back in 1972, Capt Jimbo has made over 3,000 skydives. He's jumped from jets, dozens of different types of piston powered airplanes, helicopters, hot air balloons, historic WW-II bombers along with B.A.S.E. jumping. Currently, he teaches aerobatic flying in his Super Decathlon over Pensacola Beach along with being a rated Skydiving Coach.
Capt Jimbo attended Plant High School in Tampa, Florida where he was the quarterback for a championship football team. After graduating from Florida State University, where he was a noteworthy wrestler, he entered Naval Flight School at N.A.S. Pensacola. He flew the Douglas A-4 Skyhawks as a Tactical and Nuclear Weapons delivery pilot for Marine Attack Squadron-331. During the height of the Viet Nam War, the push to train pilots was frantic to say the least. While on a training flight with a newly winged pilot in the fleet, Capt Jim was forced to make a high speed, low altitude ejection from 50 feet at 400 M.P.H. 
