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Title: Rather Interesting Aviation Guy Just Died
Post by: TEShaw on October 26, 2009, 01:21:00 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/us/26whitcomb.html?_r=1&hpw

Using his paychecks as bookmarks is rather like that Chevy Chase character in that golfing movie.
Title: Re: Rather Interesting Aviation Guy Just Died
Post by: Yeager on October 26, 2009, 04:29:24 PM
“It’s intuitive,” Mr. Whitcomb once said, according to the National Air and Space Museum statement. “I didn’t run a lot of tests to arrive at an idea, and I didn’t run a lot of mathematical calculations. I’d just sit there and think about what the air was doing, based on flow studies in the wind tunnel.”

His intuitions, he said, first came to him when he was a boy making model planes.
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Sounds like a life well earned and well lived.

<S> Richard Whitcomb
Title: Re: Rather Interesting Aviation Guy Just Died
Post by: Shuffler on October 26, 2009, 04:39:10 PM
“It’s intuitive,” Mr. Whitcomb once said, according to the National Air and Space Museum statement. “I didn’t run a lot of tests to arrive at an idea, and I didn’t run a lot of mathematical calculations. I’d just sit there and think about what the air was doing, based on flow studies in the wind tunnel.”

His intuitions, he said, first came to him when he was a boy making model planes.
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Sounds like a life well earned and well lived.

<S> Richard Whitcomb


Amen to that <S>