Ed Porcheddu

Ed Porcheddu
1955 - 2005

I was sad to learn of the death of my old friend Ed Porcheddu in a plane crash on August 11, 2005.

Ed was piloting his own ultralight aircraft. Here is a story about the crash.

His fellow pilots have more info about the crash and a recent picture of Ed and his ultralight here.

Ed and I worked together at AT&T Long Lines in White Plains, NY from 1978 to 1981. This picture was taken in 1979.
Ed is standing in the back row left wearing a red shirt. I am front row just left of center wearing a white shirt and big Afro hair.

Click the picture for a larger view. I am surprised I can remember most of the names.

Back row, standing, L to R: Ed Porcheddu, Larry Mulligan-Gibbs, Marybeth Caron (Hohrath), Joyce Sirota, Bev Kissel, Mark Elkan.
Everyone else, L to R: Larry Rein, Iris Tarkan, Cindy Comstock, Kent Avery, ?, Joan Kelleher, John Menick, Carol Rosa, Ken Rosenbaum, Carole Mecca, Jim Sannerud, Tom Medanic, Georg Hessenius, Tom Litty, John Wankmueller, Terry ?, Dorothy ?, Olivia Wilson, Mary Chen.

Here is a silly picture of Ed demonstrating unsafe use of a chainsaw pretending to have just cut off people's hands. We were taking pictures for something related to safety (or How Not To Be Safe) at AT&T.
That is Jeff Wilson on the left and Ed's wife Marianne Porcheddu on the right.

Click the picture for a larger view.

This is Ed, with fellow ex-AT&T'ers Marilyn and Fran, at an IBM conference in Miami, Florida in March 2005.
Click the picture for a larger view.

The picture on the left is from the Atlanta Trikers web site. I do not know when it was taken. The ultralight Ed posed with (Airborne Edge X Wizard R582) was not the Mitchell A-10 ultralight he was piloting at the time of his death.

Ed once helped save a man's life. It was on a canoe trip on the Delaware River and I witnessed the incident. A canoe flipped over and wedged on a rock, pinning a man and a woman beneath the canoe. Ed plunged into the water without hesitation. His action and bravery so impressed me that for all these years I kept the article that appeared in the AT&T Long Lines company newsletter dated July 16, 1979. Click here to read the article.

I have many more pictures of Ed. I will post them as I find and scan them.

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	Ed and I worked together at AT&T Long Lines in White Plains, NY from 1978 to 1981. This picture was taken in 1979. Ed is standing in the back row left wearing a red shirt. I am front row just left of center wearing a white shirt and big Afro hair. Click the picture for a larger view. I am surprised I can remember most of the names.
Back row, standing, L to R: Ed Porcheddu, Larry Mulligan-Gibbs, Marybeth Caron (Hohrath), Joyce Sirota, Bev Kissel, Mark Elkan. Everyone else, L to R: Larry Rein, Iris Tarkan, Cindy Comstock, Kent Avery, ?, Joan Kelleher, John Menick, Carol Rosa, Ken Rosenbaum, Carole Mecca, Jim Sannerud, Tom Medanic, Georg Hessenius, Tom Litty, John Wankmueller, Terry ?, Dorothy ?, Olivia Wilson, Mary Chen.
	Here is a silly picture of Ed demonstrating unsafe use of a chainsaw pretending to have just cut off people's hands. We were taking pictures for something related to safety (or How Not To Be Safe) at AT&T. That is Jeff Wilson on the left and Ed's wife Marianne Porcheddu on the right. Click the picture for a larger view.
	This is Ed, with fellow ex-AT&T'ers Marilyn and Fran, at an IBM conference in Miami, Florida in March 2005. Click the picture for a larger view.
	The picture on the left is from the Atlanta Trikers web site. I do not know when it was taken. The ultralight Ed posed with (Airborne Edge X Wizard R582) was not the Mitchell A-10 ultralight he was piloting at the time of his death.