Aviation History - USA (2019-09)

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LETTER FROM AvIATION HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 2019

BY CARL VON WODTKE

the great bird

of the galaxy

FINAL FRONTIER

Top: Gene Rodden-

berry (in brown suit)

and Star Trek cast

members attend the

September 1976

rollout ceremony for

the space shuttle

Enterprise. Above:

Roddenberry enlisted

in the U.S. Army Air

Forces on December

18, 1941, and flew

B-17s in the Pacific.

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