Rolf Stünkel

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Rolf Stünkel as a traffic pilot in the Airbus A350 (2019)

Rolf Stünkel (* 1954 in Hildesheim ) is a German writer , photographer and former combat and traffic pilot .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1972, Stünkel went to the Navy and, among other things, completed an apprenticeship as a lieutenant at sea on the training ship Gorch Fock . He then applied for the flying personnel of the Navy and became a starfighter and tornado pilot . In 1989 he moved to Lufthansa , for which he worked as a commercial pilot until March 2019. Rolf Stünkel has recorded more than 23,000 flight hours in his flight logs. In addition, Stünkel works as an aviation author, photographer, editor and translator and supervises seminars for relaxed flying. Rolf Stünkel is also an avid jazz musician in his spare time.

Stünkel is the father of seven children and lives with his wife in Weyhe near Bremen .

Works

  • Inside Airport. GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-76547-003-5 .
  • Inside cockpit. GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-76547-027-1 .
  • Inside tower. GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86245-304-7 .
  • Mach 2 - My years in the Starfighter's cockpit. GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86245-333-7 .
  • Fighting Cockpits: On the pilot's seat of famous fighters and bombers. (translated into German by Rolf Stünkel) GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86245-032-9 .
  • Fighter! The ten best fighters of the Second World War. (translated into German by Rolf Stünkel) GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95613-044-1 .
  • Inside cockpit. Completely revised and expanded edition, GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95613-107-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Starfighter" pilot reports: My ride in the widow maker. In: ONE DAY - SPIEGEL ONLINE. June 30, 2014, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "Gorch Fock" - The tall ship of the German Navy. In: German Maritime Competence Network - DMKN. March 10, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Cleared to land: The last (professional) flight. In: AUSTRIAN WINGS - Austria's aviation magazine. March 30, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ example. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rolf Stünkel | Author at Tredition. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Rolf Stünkel - author: books, bibliography, biography - verlagshaus.de. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ flugangst.de - Get to know the pilots of Deutsche Lufthansa. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ A sausage for fear. In: taz.de. January 4, 2002, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Harvey's Jazzmen. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ example. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Stünkel, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, photographer and former combat and air traffic pilot
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim