On Nov 17, 9:43*pm, "Maxwell" #$$9#@%%%.^^^ wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message

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On Nov 18, 12:51 pm, Franklin see_REPLY-TO_header wrote:

On Tue 18 Nov08 06:59, Dudley Henriques wrote:
That's for a John Boyd! What a maverick. I couldn't hope to match his
stunts to highlight E-M.

I met John and knew him for a short time before he died. He was indeed
a no nonsense guy and probably one of the finest *pure sticks I've
ever known if not THE best. His coffers were filled with the names of
the best fighter pilots in the world who he converted on from allowing
them a starting position at his six while flying the Hun. His on going
bet was 40 seconds, and to my knowledge he was never beaten nor has
his record ever been topped for conversion air to air 1V1.
I did a bit of research flying as a civilian in T38's that involved EM
while working on inertial coupling departure and John gave us a
beautiful photograph of my airplane in flight signed by him.
It hangs on our den wall.
Great guy, and along with E.T. Christie and Rutowski from Douglas,
probably some of the finest aviation minds of our time.

Dudley Henriques

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What a dick head.

Maxie, you really HAVE to get rid of that mirror of yours.