Gee, I don't know. With his 40 years of military flying and his attitude about training, I really got the impression that he had started his career with the likes of Billy Mitchel and James Doolittle. I would hate to think we may have lost out on the brilliant insights of someone that likely knew Eddie Rickenbacker, Chuck Yeager, Bob Hoover and Tex Johnston.

I forget who actually flew first. Was it Wilbur or was it Orville ? And granted Glen Curtiss and even Bleriot had taught themselves to fly. But except for those very few handful of individuals, (and a few that broke their neck), everyone has been taught to fly by someone else. Flying isn't some highly technical skill . And flying isn't some rare tallent reserved for the gifted. Flying is more like a secrete that is passed on from generation to generation. And I believe that flying models is very much like that as well. Sure ,some maybe self taught. But we are here to pass on the secrete (s). Let us not poison the magic of it.