Cvairwerks wrote:
Rick: Guaranteed he is working it too.... I never met Boyd, but would have loved to have had the chance.
Got to thinking on the way home from work tonight...most of the guys that I worked with on the engineering side are all gone. Of the 120 or so engineers in my old group, only two dozen or so are still alive and of them, less than a dozen are still active in the business.
Of the engineers of other groups that I used to hang around with, all are gone now. The wealth of experience they had was and still is amazing to me. Between those guys, they were major players in every aircraft built by GD and it's predecessors from San Deigo and Fort Worth....up to and including the F-16 and the Atlas missle program.
Hard to believe that I'm considered an old timer out there at only 48 years old and over 20 years with the company. Some of the kids working out there weren't even gleams in their parents' eyes when I went to work for GD.
I met John when I was doing inertia coupling research. I liked him. Straight forward and to the point (to a fault actually
He was a "take no prisoners" type. I found him a lot like Bader in that respect. He had little use for rank and "authority" when it interfered with what he felt was right.
John was a great help to me personally with my work.
I believe his record for conversion air to air (guns envelope) from a dead 12' o'clock position 1v1 with the Hun against all comers still stands as unique in the Air Force.
Dudley Henriques
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