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``As a rule, General, we don't hire ex-military pilots. They fly airplanes; we fly people.'' So spake Tils Peabody to Dick Lassiter at NBAA a few eons back. Endicott Tilson Peabody founded GM's flight department and honchoed it from 1946 until his retirement, following which he was felled by a heart...

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