"... and you can’t stand up in your [expletive] Rolls-Royce, either"

[ElPaso Pilot]

A little article on Bill Lear's Learjet in today's Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/who-made-that-learjet.html?_r=0

 

[mikegreen]

sweet. thanks for posting.

If you're a lear fan, read Stormy Genius about him.. great book.

 

[Shepherd]

The original Lear was a revelation to the old SSBB pilots. Nothing was ever the same.

 

[Dead Stick]

I spent nearly 3000 hours in the left front seat of a Lear. They were good times.

 

[Inverted]

The Lear is stilla force in the bizjet world.