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Ten Years Ago

April 6, 2016

Many years ago, too many to count but not enough to care, a Times reporter was motoring past the Huntsville Airport and witnessed a rectangular white object fluttered down out of the sky. Upon further investigation, the reporter discovered radio control pilot Jerry Baker, despondent over the demise of his RC Arrow. The white rectangular object was one of the airplane’s wings and it had departed from flying close formation with the rest of the airplane. When that happened, the aircraft went divergent on all axes, as test pilots sometimes say.

The April, 2006, edition...