Goodbye Beautiful Wing: aka GM,DS! (Good Men, Do Something!) - Softcover

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Terrence O'Neill soloed in a Porterfield, at age 16, in 1946, four months after two atomic bombs ended WW II. At age 23, he transferred from Aero Engineering to get a BA in Journalism, Notre Dame, January 1953, during Korean War time, and enlisted in the Navy Air Corps. He flew P2Vs in Patrol Squadron FOUR in the Pacific until 1957. He married Cynthia Westermann in 1956. They have six children who they helped get educated. All have college degrees -- four have graduate degrees. Four are engineers, one a speech pathologist, and one a teacher-writer. After the Navy, O’Neill’s day-jobs varied: a St. Louis newspaper reporter, an ITT tech writer, free-lance writer, and PR manager for Falstaff Brewing Corp. Part-time, in 1960 he bought, restored, and flew the last Waco. In 1967 he incorporated O’Neill Airplane Company to manufacture his design, a six-place light plane, earning FAA Provisional Type Certificate A19CE in 1969, just as the General Aviation market crashed, with his company. While an Admin Director for an engineering company, part-time he designed, built and flight tested his Magnum bush plane, but there was no market interest. The O’Neills now fly the Lancair 235/320 he built. In 1985 he started designing a state-of-the-art personal plane, a blended-wing-body. He studied R&D government records of the Northrop B-35 and B-49 Flying Wings, and to understand of flying wings, bought, improved and flew a Mitchell B-10 ‘wing’. His research spun-off inventing a roll-yaw stability device for swept wing aircraft, awarded US Patent 5,078,338. It also motivated him to write a novel titled ‘Goodbye Beautiful Wing’, exposing why the Air Force bought the inferior B-36 Peacemaker ‘Stick’ instead of the stealthy (1948!) B-35 Flying Wings. O'Neill has about 2000 hours as a Commercial Pilot license with single- and multi-engine, instrument, instructor ratings, is still flying his Lancair, and is building the BWB.