Meet IAMA Volunteers Rob & Teena Ray
June 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under IAMA News, IAMA Spotlight, Volunteers
Meet IAMA Volunteers Rob & Teena Ray.
Rob (also and more commonly known as “Smokey”) and Teena both work for Southwest Airlines.
Rob, a former Air Force F-16 pilot, is now Captain up front on the flight deck of a Southwest Airlines 737. Smokey’s flying career spans from his teens logging hundreds of hours towing banners over Florida beaches to one of the most advanced cockpits in aviation, an F-16. He is also an A&P.
Teena does her thing as a senior level flight attendant in the passenger area of a Southwest Boeing 737. Before this career she taught school many years in a Christian school.
Both love the Lord and wanted to serve Him in a tangible way.
Rob & Teena have traveled extensively on behalf of IAMA this year in their Harmon Rocket (Click to enlarge)
They’re connection to IAMA began at Oshkosh a while back when they visited the IAMA, JAARS, and MAF booths there. They were hooked!
Then last year it was decided [by EAA] to make Public Benefit flying a major focus for the 2009 EAA AirVenture.
It is being called Fly4Life
Public Benefit flying was a broad term coined that would convey the idea and cover the worldwide plethora of non-profit aviation activities that have as their goal of purely serving your fellow man.
IAMA was tapped as the logical organization to represent the mission aviation side of public benefit flying.
At that point, Rob & Teena came forward and volunteered to head up the massive effort of fleshing out and organizing the thousands of puzzle pieces that will make the face of mission aviation come alive to the nearly one million visitors to this years 2009 edition of EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI.
Rob & Teena were recognized by IAMA President, Chuck Daly, at this years IAMA Conference at Liberty University for their work on behalf of IAMA and mission aviation this year.
Rob, as an A&P, is also an avid Experimental builder having owned an RV-4 and today, Teena and Smokey hop around the country in his Harmon Rocket. Rob also has a consulting business for prospective RV owners called R2 Aviation.
Would you like to get involved in missions and aviation as a volunteer but need a place to hang your hat?
IAMA and other mission aviation organizations need YOU! Your lifetime experience and skill-set may be just what is needed right now somewhere.
Contact IAMA if you are interested and we’ll point you in the right direction!
You are cleared for take-off!
