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A loving memory from a long-time reader

By General Aviation News Staff · March 10, 2006 ·

I am renewing a three-year subscription to General Aviation News. Here is a little bit of history I wanted to share with you.

In 1959 my wife sent in a subscription to the old Northwest Flyer for my birthday. She used my first name and middle initial, which is Robert P. I have always gone by the name of Bob.

She was killed in a car accident before the first subscription ran out. I left my name the way she had submitted it nearly 50 years ago.

We were fortunate to have seen a lot of this great country from the air for a few years.

Robert P. Fryer
Newberg, Ore.

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