Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques is an aviation consultant and former professional civilian pilot, having flown high performance aircraft for over forty years. He retired from flying in 1995.

Mr. Henriques is a past President of the International Fighter Pilots Fellowship. He has served in an honorary capacity as Maryland State Representative, Eastern Region Director, and Director of Special Projects, for the Combat Pilots Association of the United States.
He was an active member of the Professional Race Pilots Association, and the P51 Mustang Pilots Association.

Flying history
He holds commercial ratings for both single and multi-engine aircraft, and is a certified flight instructor. He has flown at least seventy different types of aircraft, including experimental, prototype, and fighters, both jet and propeller.

A specialist in aerobatic demonstration flying and aerobatic instruction, he has flown hundreds of air shows in aircraft ranging from a Pitts Special to a P51 Mustang fighter.

During the early sixties, flying a Mustang, he patented a three point reverse roll to knife-edge tactical pitch-out approach that became a trademark manoeuvre.

One of very few civilian pilots who have flown both American and foreign high performance jets, he has flown by invitation with the Canadian Jet Aerobatic Team Snowbirds, and the Naval Test Pilot School in the supersonic Northrop T38 Talon.

As an aviation writer, Mr. Henriques has written extensively for the fighter communities of both the Navy and the Air Force. His nationally distributed articles on both the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds during the fuel crisis of the early seventies, were of direct assistance to both these military aerobatic teams in maintaining their respective missions.

Other work
He has done extensive research in energy manoeuvrability and inertia coupling departure, and is considered an expert in Air combat manoeuvring.

He has flown by invitation with Naval Strike Aircraft Test Directorate in the Grumman F14 Tomcat. While assigned at Pax River NAS, he narrated the flight demonstrations of both the F14 Tomcat for Grumman, and the prototype YF17 Cobra for Northrop.

A long time advocate of air show flight safety and demonstration technique in high performance aircraft, Mr. Henriques’ extended remarks on these issues appear in the book Zero Error Margin: Air Show Display Flying Analysed (Gen Des Barker, South African Air Force, Freeworld Publications, Nelspruit, South Africa) and in the February 2004 issue of Aeroplane Monthly in the feature article "Precision Decision".

Further reading
* His extended biography appears in The History Of The P51 Mustang, Turner Publishing 1987.
* Remarks concerning his early life can be found in the college text HABIT by Elinor Verville, Ph.D, 1988 Charles C. Thomas Publisher.
* Mr. Henriques’ early life and how he entered into aviation was the subject of a major article in the April 1985 Reader's Digest, “A Little Help From a Friend” His story can also be found in the book " Everyday Greatness" by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Rutledge Hill Press 2006

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