The quiet billionaires behind America’s Predator drone that killed Iran’s Soleimani:
"The Flying Blue Brothers": Neal and Linden Blue pictured in a single-propeller aircraft on the April 8, 1957 cover of Life magazine. Hellfire
In 1956, the heyday of the hero aviator was well within living memory. It had only been twenty-years since Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific; thirty since Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh had conquered the Atlantic. The “Flying Blue Brothers” were famous. The wealthy, good-looking Yale undergrads were on a South American aerial marathon covering 25,000 miles in 110 days while crossing the Andes a dozen times.
GA started building a cost-efficient drone that didn’t require a human on board. It was called Birdie, executives joked, because it was “cheap cheap cheap.” They also pursued other interests. In the early 1970s, Neal Blue served as a director on the board of Colorado-based Great Western United Corp., where he and his brother were the biggest shareholders. News reports from the time show that Neal Blue resigned in 1974 when its sugar business was indicted on charges of price fixing by the U.S. government.
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