Flying B Ranch is a 33 acre horse ranch on the east coast of Florida, situated midway between Daytona Beach (with its famous beaches and attractions) and the charming town of New Smyrna Beach. The ranch is conveniently located less than 3 miles from Interstate 95, and is less than 10 miles from many of the major attractions in the area (beach access, the downtown Main Street area, the Daytona Speedway, to name just a few). We offer overnight accommodations for travelers with horses in our dedicated and renovated Horse Motel. The ranch is easily accessible for even the biggest truck/trailer/RV rigs - including the Budweiser Clydesdales and the Wells Fargo Stagecoach Team!

I've been a columnist and (occasional) features writer for these two fine Owner's Association general aviation magazines since they began.

Author of several aviation/adventure theme novels. His newest novel, "Captain", was released March/2012 and more about it can be seen at www.ThomasBlockNovels.com. All of his past novels have been extensively revised and republished and complete details about each of them can be seen at www.ThomasBlockNovels.com.

Thomas Block has written a number of aviation-oriented novels, many which have gone on to acquire best-seller status in numerous countries. His novel writing began with the publication of "Mayday" in 1979. That novel was rewritten with his boyhood friend, novelist Nelson DeMille in 1998 and remains on DeMille's extensive backlist. "Mayday" became a CBS Movie of the Week in October, 2005. Several of the other novels by Block include "Orbit" (a top bestseller in Germany, among other nations), "Airship Nine", "Forced Landing" (also done as a radio serialization drama in Japan), "Skyfall", "Open Skies" and his newest release, "Captain". Thomas Block is still writing both fiction and non-fiction, and has edited and updated his earlier novels into ebooks in all the major formats and also into new full-sized (trade soft cover) printed versions. Block's magazine writing began in 1968 and over the next five decades his work has appeared in numerous publications. He worked 20 years at FLYING Magazine as Contributing Editor, and as Contributing Editor to Plane & Pilot Magazine for 11 years. Block became Editor-at-Large for Piper Flyer Magazine and Cessna Flyer Magazine in 2001. During his long career as an aviation writer he has written on a wide array of subjects that range from involvement with government officials to evaluation reports on most everything that flies. An airline pilot for US Airways for over 36 years before his retirement in April, 2000, Captain Thomas Block has been a pilot since 1959. Since 2002, he has lived on a ranch in Florida with his wife Sharon where they board, compete and train horses. In addition to the website at www.ThomasBlockNovels.com, the Ranch website can be found at www.FlyingB-Ranch.com.

Flew BAC 1-11, Boeing 737, Boeing 757, Boeing 767. Check Pilot on BAC 1-11 & Assistant to Flight Manager. Retired on April 1, 2000.

Flew BAC 1-11, Convair 580.

Flew as copilot on Convair 240/340/440, FH227, BAC 1-11; flew as captain on FH227.