David Thomas, architect of U.S. ATC system/former FAA deputy administrator, died

David Thomas, 85, an architect of the U.S. air traffic control system and a former FAA deputy administrator, died June 17. Thomas joined the former Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1938 as an air traffic controller and remained with it as it became the Federal Aviation Agency and then the Federal...

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