J.O. Flletcher
Tom; Did you know J.O. Fletcher - "Fletcher's Ice Island"? Joe was first to land at North Pole (C 47) and the first person to visit both poles.
He was a B 17 pilot and squadron leader in WW II . He was assigned, with a B17 and crew to GE Research Lab in Schenectady, where he worked on icing and contrail problems with Vince Schaefer in 1947 - 48. They stayed lifelong friends.
I went to work for Vince when I came home from the service in 1964. I never asked Joe for a favor , but he was my "angel" several times in both Arctic and Antarctic. He began the instrumentation of the remote sensing C130 we used when I was Mission Scientist 1977 -80.
Joe died a little over a year ago at 88
Best, Austin
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