Education
Born in Cortland, New York, Serling graduated from Antioch College.
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Robert Jerome Serling
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Career
He became full-time aviation editor for United Press International in 1960. His novel The President"s Plane Is Missing was made into a 1973 made-for-television film starring Buddy Ebsen. He was the older brother of screenwriter and The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling.
Was a United Press International, Washington, District of Columbia, reporter and manager of Radio News Division, 1945-1960, aviation editor, 1960-1966.
Air safety lecturer and consultant, beginning 1966. Collected commercial airline models (more than four hundred during his life) and material on aviation research.
Brother Rod Serling hired him as a consultant for the airplane sequences in the episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" of his hit television-show The Twilight Zone. Something"s Alive on the Titanic and The President"s Plane Is Missing are fantasy novels set in real life high-profile backdrops.
Was a reporter for the Washington Redskins.
Travelled with the team and roomed with quarterback Eddie LeBaron. Authored the short story "Ghost Writer" published in Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary. Featured speaker at 2008 Airliners International convention in Dallas, Texas.
Achievements
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He received the 1988 Lauren D. Lyman Award "for distinguished achievement in the field of aviation and aerospace journalism." He died of heart failure on May 6, 2010 at age 92. Received numerous honors of his work throughout his career: Transport-World Airlines, seven awards, 1958-1965, for aviation news reporting, Strebig-Dobben Memorial Award, 1960. Special citations from Sherman Fairchild Foundation, 1963, Flight Safety Foundation, 1970, and Airline Pilots Association, 1970. Aviation/Space Writers Association, James Trebig Memorial Award, 1964, special citation, 1967, award in fiction, 1966, for The Left Seat, and in nonfiction, 1969, for Loud and Clear.
Membership
Member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators and the Aviation/Space Writers Association.
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Political Party
The Left