Unfriendly Skies

In article
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Orval Fairbairn wrote:



I am a veteran of that battle -- its intent was to put everybody under
"positive control," which the system could never handle. At that time,
there was a coterie of seven who ruled FAA -- two of whom were Keith
Potts, then head of ATC and Herman McClure, then head of FAA Western
Div. They had no use for the Little Guy, and wanted to push us off the
map.

Eventually, we formed a petition to reassign Potts -- McCluire was also
reassigned.

Sorry about the mixup -- but it was Homer McClure -- not Herman McClure.


An old friend who used to work at Douglas told me a Homer story about
"Dr. McClure" coming in for a factory visit. Someone asked him if he was
an MD or a dentist, to which Homer replied; "PhD."

The Douglas people said "Oh, then you're Homer -- we only refer to MDs
and dentists as "Dr" around here."