Alan Armstrong, Esq. is a trial lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, who represents victims and their survivors in relation to personal injuries and wrongful deaths arising out of aviation accidents. Mr. Armstrong also provides representation to victims in other forms of personal injury litigation. Mr. Armstrong represents airmen, aircraft operators and FAA certified repair stations in aviation enforcement proceedings before the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, and he crafts various airplane contracts, leases and closing documents for clients in accordance with FAA rules and regulations. Mr. Armstrong also represents clients in connection with aviation property matters, such as disputes with insurance companies when aircraft are damaged or destroyed. Mr. Armstrong also provides legal assistance to individuals or entities who wish to lease aircraft and/or operate aircraft under time share or interchange agreements permitted by the Federal Aviation Administration Regulations. Mr. Armstrong also has experience in representing professionals before state licensing boards.


          An avid pilot, Mr. Armstrong flies a replica Nakajima B5N2 Kate bomber in airshows. Links to his various aviation and writing endeavors can be found on the Personal Interests page.

Opposition papers concerning TSA's Larger Aircraft Security Program

         
         
April 1, 2010 - Constitutionality of Health Care Law Video -
December 30, 2009 - GA News Article - 'TSA 'a substantial threat' to GA' by Alan Armstrong - http://www.generalaviationnews.com/?p=17060#more-17060

September 17, 2009 - Special Flightwatch Bulletin concerning an ANPRM on FAA Safety Management System - View the bulletin on the Newsletters page.

          March 28, 2009 - Alan Armstrong's Midway Air Battle Airshow was profiled on Fox 24 News in Macon.  The Robins AFB Airshow was May 2nd-3rd.  View the article - http://www.fox24.com/article.asp?pkid=15910

          September 15, 2009 - Flying Tigers member passes away in US - By Thomas Kean

ONE of the last members of the Flying Tigers squadron that defended Myanmar from invading Japanese forces in World War II died on August 18, aged 94, an American newspaper reported last week.  Charles R Bond Jr, a retired US Air Force major general, died of dementia in Dallas, Texas, on August 18, according to an August 31 report in The Washington Post. Bond was one of about 400 pilots and ground personnel who served in the American Volunteer Group – nicknamed the Flying Tigers – under General Claire Chenault.  The group was tasked with protecting military supply routes between Myanmar and the Chinese government led by Chiang Kai-Shek, which was being supplied by the American government in its war against Japan.  “The group’s exploits became legend. Flying the P-40 aircraft, their fuselages painted with a toothsome tiger, the Flying Tigers were credited with shooting down 299 enemy planes and destroying 200 on the ground, even though the Japanese at times outnumbered Chenault’s group 15 to one. On one day in late February 1942, the Flying Tigers downed 28 Japanese planes while losing none,” the report said.  “During one of the 1942 engagements, General Bond destroyed three Japanese I-97 planes while piloting his P-40B. He was credited with nine kills in all.”  One of the reasons he eventually joined the Flying Tigers was the promise of US$500 for every Japanese plane he shot down, the report said, adding that he used the money earned as a flying ace to help his parents buy a house.  Bond was shot down twice while serving in Myanmar – on May 4, 1942, and again on June 12 of the same year. Later that year he returned to the US before serving as a commander in the Vietnam War. In 1984 he co-authored a book – A Flying Tiger’s Diary – that details his exploits in Myanmar and is described by one reviewer as “by far the best account currently in print from the point of view of one of the original Flying Tiger pilots”.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JUNE 11, 2009
 

There will be a public reading of my screenplay, Preemptive Strike, at the Vision Fest Film Festival in New York, Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 3:45 p.m. The reading is open to the public and free of charge. However, the location of the reading, The Cherry Pit Theater will seat only about 90 people. For that reason it is desirable to make a reservation via email: 2009Visionfest.com. The reading is expected to take approximately 2 hours, will feature approximately 30 actors and actresses, and is being directed by Ari Taub. The Cherry Pit Theater is located at 155 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014. I am extremely grateful to the Vision Fest Film Festival for the opportunity to have this public reading of my screenplay.

The Preemptive Strike screenplay is based on the life experiences of General Claire Lee Chennault and his involvement in organizing “a guerilla air corps” known today as the American Volunteer Group or Flying Tigers. Contrary to popular culture, the AVG was to be more than a fighter group to defend China from the onslaught of Japanese invaders during the Sino-Japanese War which began on July 7, 1937. Chennault intended to bomb Japan with bombers that would be operated from Chekiang Province in southeastern China, only 700 miles from the Japanese home islands. Chennault’s audacious plan became officially endorsed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt who signed Joint Army/Navy Board 355 (“the Joint Board Plan”) on July 23, 1941, only two days before America imposed a total trade embargo on Japan. The Preemptive Strike story underscores Chennault’s struggle to organize his guerilla air corps in the jungles of Burma (a British colony) and the frustrations he experienced when the bombers promised by FDR failed to arrive by early November, as scheduled in the Joint Board Plan.

In 1991, Stone Philips of the ABC News Show 20/20 reported on the Joint Board Plan. Philips confessed, however, he did not know if the Japanese were aware of the American plan to bomb Japan. Today, we know that a Chinese national known only as “PA” betrayed the American bombing plan to the Japanese as early as May 29, 1941, months before FDR finally endorsed the Joint Board Plan. Radio messages from diplomatic offices in Japan intercepted by the American intelligence community and on file in America’s National Archives confirm not only that Japan knew of the American plan, but the American intelligence community knew that Japan knew of the American plan at least six months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.     

It is worth noting that after the Second World War Chennault organized a company known as Civil Air Transport that supported Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War, and, in time, performed services for the CIA. Eventually, the CIA bought Civil Air Transport and renamed it “Air America.” Chennault’s activities in organizing a guerilla air corps lived on as “Air America” was engaged in covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.  

A project related to the Preemptive Strike screenplay is my book by the same title published by Lyons Press. For further information, interested parties may contact the undersigned.