Unless they're natural showmen like Burt Rutan, aircraft designers rarely find themselves in the public eye. Aeronautical engineers just don't generate the same kind of passion that, say, ace pilots do. Witness the voluminous commentary that attended the death on October 4 of Luftwaffe legend Gue0nther Rall, history's third-ranking fighter ace. Yet the passing of another aviation great just nine days later scarcely elicited a mention in the papers.
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