Unicom
March 2004 Issue
Unicom: 03/04
Casting Aspersions
To say that I am outraged would be a gross understatement! For the first time in my many years of reading the NTSB reports section of your periodical I noted that you identified the pilot by name in the report on the October 2 accident in Clayton, Ga.
In my opinion, you callously insulted perhaps the greatest aviator in aviation history, bar none. I have followed the career of Gen. Yeager since my Air Force days with SAC in the mid-’50s and have always had the greatest of respect and admiration for the man.
His work as a test pilot in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s probably saved the lives of more pilots in the Air Force (and general aviation, for that matter...
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