"Jim Burns" wrote in
:

Another of our favorite authors and mentors has gone west.
Robert Buck now walks along side Bill Kershner as together they watch
over us. Like Kershner, Buck's worldly wisdom will live on for the
benefit of generations of future pilots.
Jim


WEATHER PIONEER ROBERT N. BUCK DIES AT 93
Famed weather research pioneer and longtime AOPA Air Safety Foundation
Board of Visitors member Robert N. Buck died recently in Vermont. He
was 93. Among other accomplishments in his more than 70-year flying
career, Buck literally "wrote the book" on how general aviation pilots
should cope with weather. Read the biography from AOPA Pilot. "Almost
every pilot has read or should have read his 1970 classic 'Weather
Flying,'" said Air Safety Foundation Executive Director Bruce
Landsberg. "And as a foundation Board of Visitors member since 1991,
Bob was not only a great personal friend, but an inspiration for many
of the foundation's current weather programs." Buck laid the
groundwork for much of what GA pilots know today about severe weather.
He pioneered research in the 1940s by flying through thunderstorms and
severe icing conditions in B-17s and a fortified P-61 Black Widow.
That work won him a Civilian Air Medal from President Harry S. Truman.
Visit AOPA Online to listen to a 90-second audio clip of Buck's
first-hand description of what it's like to fly through a
thunderstorm.

Went to an airline sponsored lecture of his a looong time ago. Best
lecture I ever attended.. Everything you needed to know about CB, radar.
Never forgot any of it.. ( I hope)



Bertie