Astra the Lonely Airplane

Whitney, Julie: - Julie Whitney is a public relations professional with forty years of experience in public relations and marketing, having worked on both the agency and client side as well as in the television industry. Her company, Phillippi-Whitney Communications, LLC, founded in 2000, represents both large and small clients in a wide variety of industries. She has promoted dozens of authors throughout her career, often supplementing the efforts of the internal PR teams of their publishers. She also works as on-camera talent, appearing in both television commercials and video podcasts. She even appeared as an extra in the movie Grease, which was shot on location in the summer of 1977 in Los Angeles.

Julie lives in Cincinnati with her husband Dan, a corporate pilot upon whom the character of Captain Dan is based. A naval aviator and USNA grad, he flew the P-3 Orion on active duty, and has flown a Gulf-stream G100 (Astra) for the past thirteen years. With four grown children, they are now empty nesters and love spending time with their black Lab, Brody. They also enjoy traveling, boating, golfing, and all types of physical fitness.