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By watha on 04-29-12 @ 8:52 pm
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Is this weird, or what?  I’m a journalist by trade, and working on a book on navigation.  One
of my valued resources is the eighth edition of a book first published in 1957, one year after I
was born.  The book is entitled “Van Sickle’s Modern Airmanship.”  Yep.  Same Van Sickle.  Out
of sheer curiosity I wanted to learn more about him and see if he was still alive.  I’m
delighted to find that he is.  But I’m a bit dismayed by the article, which glosses over the
man’s highly regarded aviation manual.  He’s had a remarkable life.  He started out as an army
cavalry (!) officer, switched to airplanes, flew bombing missions over Japan, led a wing of the
Strategic Air Command, wrote a classic book on all aspects of aviation, and now has become a
historian of the fur trade.  And he’s 97.  Just…wow.
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