Menear, S. L.: - Author BioSharon is a retired airline pilot. US Airways hired her in 1980 as their first woman pilot, bypassing the flight engineer position. That was when less than one-half of one percent of the world's commercial pilots were women. The men in her new-hire class gave her the nickname "Bombshell." She flew Boeing 727s and 737s, DC-9s, and BAC 1-11 airliners and was promoted to captain in her seventh year.Before her pilot career, Sharon worked as a water-sports and boating model and then traveled the world as a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways.She also enjoyed flying antique airplanes, experimental aircraft, and Third-World fighter airplanes. Sharon has flown many of the airplanes in her award-winning Samantha Starr Thriller Series, featuring a woman pilot: Flight to Redemption, Flight to Destiny, Triple Threat, Stranded, and Vanished. Samantha Starr will return soon in Trapped.Sharon's Jettine Jorgensen Mystery Series features a young female private investigator who is of Cherokee and Danish heritage and lives in an old Viking-themed castle in Palm Beach County. The series began with award-winning Dead Silent.An experience with her beautiful black and white paint stallion, Chief, is included in the plot of Flight to Redemption, and her beloved Timber-shepherds, Pratt and Whitney, named after her favorite aircraft engine manufacturer, appear in her mystery series. She lives on an island in South Florida.Sharon is an active member of MWA, ITW, FWA, FAPA, and SINC. Contact her via https: //www.slmenear.com and Facebook.com/slmenear.