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Jack Garrett Real (below left), whose aviation career spanned more than fifty years, died 6 September at the age of ninety. Real began his career at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in 1939. He worked on a number of projects, including the Model 18 Lodestar and Hudson, and served as the flight engineer on the first flight of the YC-130 prototype in 1954. He later served as vice president for the AH-56 Cheyenne attack helicopter program. He joined the Hughes Tool Company in 1971 and became the personal advisor to Howard Hughes. He later became president of Hughes Helicopters and McDonnell Douglas Helicopters before retiring in 1986.
Marta Bohn-Meyer, a precision aerobatic pilot and the chief engineer of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, California, died in the crash of her Giles G-300 aerobatic aircraft on 18 September. She was forty-eight. Bohn-Meyer joined NASA's Dryden Center as an operations engineer in 1979 and had served as chief engineer since 2001. Among her research projects were testing heat-resistant tiles for the space shuttle and using F-16XL aircraft to reduce turbulent airflow over airplane wings. She was the first crew member and one of only two women to fly in the SR-71 Blackbird. She was profiled in the April 1994 issue of Code One magazine.
 
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