Philip J. Klass
Philip J. Klass, who retired as senior avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology in 1986, died on Aug. 9 in Merritt Island, Fla., from cancer. He was 85. (See p. 58 for a tribute.) Klass was born in 1919 in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in Cedar Rapids. He earned his bachelor of science...
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