Kaman Decision

摘要

Charles Kaman was the last of his breed: an aviation pioneer who still sat in the CEO's chair in a company he founded. He was unique too; in aviation biology the pioneering gene rarely mixes with the business gene. Both Curtiss and the Wrights had departed their eponymous companies well before those companies merged and then sank beneath their combined weight; William Boeing bailed out while his was still a modest enterprise; so too did Clyde Cessna slip away from Cessna Aircraft. Late last year Charles Kaman announced that he was stepping down as chief executive officer of Kaman Corporation—after more than a half-century at the helm—due to declining health.