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By Harris Lentz, III

Novelist and aviation writer Robert J. Serling was the older brother of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling.  He assisted his brother as an aviation advisor on the 1956 Studio One episode The Arena and the 1961 Twilight Zone outing The Odyssey of Flight 33.   He was best know as the author of the 1967 best-selling novel The President’s Plane Is Missing.  The political thriller was adapted as tele-film in 1973 starring Buddy Ebsen and Peter Graves.

Serling was born in Cortland, New York, on March 28, 1918.  He first served as an aircraft identification instructor during World War II.  He worked with United Press International in Washington, D.C., as a reporter and managed the Radio News Division from 1945 to 1960.  He served as Upi’s aviation editor from 1960 to 1966.  He was co-author with astronaut Frank Borman on the 1988 book Countdown: An Autobiography of Frank Borman, and penned the 1990 thriller Something’s Alive on the Titanic. »

- Harris Lentz

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