Neal and Linden Blue, the billionaire brothers behind General Atomics, have sold hundreds of Predator drones, and transformed modern warfare.
"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 20 years since Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific; 30 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.
Long before they became press shy , the Blue brothers were publicity hounds. In 1955, Neal Blue and three of his Yale classmates traveled from Paris to India to the U.S. and convinced theto let them write about their round-the-world journey in a multipart series for the newspaper. Thecover came a year later, after the brothers pitched their South American excursion to magazine editors nationwide.
Neal and Linden , who are looking at a map of South America in this photo, raised $3,000 to for their aerial adventure across South America.In 1986, the brothers landed on a unique opportunity. Chevron had recently acquired Gulf Oil and now wanted to divest excess subsidiaries, one of which was General Atomics.
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