Rather Interesting Aviation Guy Just Died

[TEShaw]

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.

[Yeager]

“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

[Shuffler]

“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>