Gene May
Test Pilot
Extraordinaire!
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What Came After the Skyrocket?This page is nowhere near finished, but here is a little information to whet your appetite.
In 1951 he was named Chief of Flight Operations for the new facility Douglas was building in Tulsa, OK to produce the new B-47 under contract from Boeing. One newspaper account stated the Gene had already been to Seattle for flight training. Unfortunately, before the plant opened Gene had an "episode" while rowing his fishing boat on the Lost River at his mountain retreat in Idaho. Douglas would not let him fly after that, and following a few months of contesting their ruling, he quit to pursue a flying career in the corporate world.
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