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Prepare For Takeoff

ordon Autry earned his pilot’s license as a teenager in the 1940s. By 21, he was a flight instructor and later helped chart the route for I-70 from the air. The aviator, always sharply dressed in a threepiece suit and with slicked-back hair, particularly loved flying recreationally from

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