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GOOD F-107 PILOT

Each month I look forward to the new issue of Aviation History for informative articles and interesting perspectives about historically significant and just plain cool facts from your researchers and contributors. When I began paging through the May issue I stopped cold when I saw the short article about the North American F-107A “Ultra Sabre” [Extremes]. As it turns out, I was fortunate to have rubbed elbows with one of the pilots who actually flew the F-107A.

After serving with the U.S. Navy flying A-7s and F/A-18s, I went to the airlines and

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