Less than a week after he was honored as one of aviation's top
100 pioneers, the founder of AMR/Combs died at a Phoenix (AZ)
hospice of apparent heart failure. He was 90 years old.
"He was a very dynamic individual -- a perfectionist, really, in
everything he did," said close friend Jim Greenwood, a former
aviation public relations executive in Wichita (KS). "He was a real
aviation pioneer."