To: Paleo Conservative
I saw Yeager 23 24 years ago when they named an airport after him in Charleston West Virginia. No mention of what they paid him for that. Times have changed, I guess.
2 posted on
12/31/2009 11:17:26 PM PST by
malkee
(Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than three years now -- But I think about it every day.)
To: malkee
"I saw Yeager 23 24 years ago when they named an airport after him in Charleston West Virginia. No mention of what they paid him for that. Times have changed, I guess."If that is a slam at General Yeager then shame on you. As an ex pilot I admire his guts breaking the sound barrier. What have you ever done that is worth mention?
6 posted on
12/31/2009 11:42:29 PM PST by
blackbart.223
(I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
To: malkee
I doubt if he got any money for the airport, and I bet if he threw a fit about it they would have named it for someone else.
There is no problem in using Yeager's name w/o permission in non-marketing things like journalism, academics or literature.
You could certainly write an unauthorized biography about him.
And I certainly don't blame Yeager for being choosy as to what products with which his name is associated.
34 posted on
01/01/2010 5:20:48 AM PST by
Tribune7
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