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"Dudley Henriques" wrote:

With your kind permission I would like to take just a few lines here to say
goodbye to an old and dear friend.
This Monday, retired AF Brig Gen Robert L. Scott Jr. died. He was 97.
Scotty and I go way back together.
When I was a young boy dreaming about becoming a pilot, it was Bob's book
"God Is My Co-Pilot", an account of his exploits in China with Chennault
that was part of my inspiration.
Later on in life, as I became a bit known in aviation, we became friends,
and have remained so all through the fifty odd years I have been in
aviation.
When I founded the International Fighter Pilots Fellowship in 1971, Bob Noel
Bacon, and Anna Chennault for Gen Claire Lee Chennault, became out first
charter members.
Scotty's last job, at the Warner Robbins Aviation Museum in his beloved
Georgia, was the perfect setting for him to spend his last days. He loved
being there, and was always available to answer questions about aviation and
about his life and times.
I'll miss him. A wonderful guy.

"sic transit gloria mundi"

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Dudley Henriques
For the International Fighter Pilots Fellowship

Let us raise our glasses and toast to Gen. Scott!

I also read "God is my Co-Pilot" and enjoyed it. I hope that he did not
suffer in his last years, as I have seen family, in-laws and friends
reach that point -- it is not a pretty picture!

He is now flying with Jimmy Doolittle, the Wright Bros, Jimmy Stewart,
Billy Mitchell, Pappy Boyington and all the others, great and obscure,
who have gone before. I am sure that they are all swapping war stories
and telling lies!