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01-13-2013, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ridgeland, SC
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Paul-
Thank you so much for your dedication to our space program. You were a big part of history, and the US space program was better because of you and others like you.
Enjoy retirement, you have earned it my friend!
Tom
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01-13-2013, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 488
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Congratulations!
Don't expect retirement to translate into lot's of discretionary time. I have no idea how I found 60 hrs per week to "work". Enjoy your loved ones and throw away your scheduler of choice (except for the doctors appts of course..)
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01-13-2013, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 405
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Congratulations and thanks!
Congratulations Paul for completing a distinguished NASA career. And thanks for the advice and information shared to me and flight enthusiasts all around the world. I'm hoping you maintain Houston connections for a long time, it's great to live just 5 minutes away from you and Louise - tasty homemade Christmas cookies every year!
Carl
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01-13-2013, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Newport, TN
Posts: 7,496
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Congrats Paul and thank you for your service. It was an honor to shake your hand at Osh last year! I grew up with the shuttle program so it will always have a special place in my heart!
That program is one of the major influences on who I am today as a person! In a way, you helped mold my childhood, education, my career and finally my love for all types of aviation!
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01-13-2013, 07:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Oliver, B.C. Canada (Okanagan valley)
Posts: 786
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Congratulations Pau l!
...on completing a distinguished NASA career! As others have said, you are an inspiration both at work and here on these forums.
You write very well and I would like you to know that I would read the story of Paul Dye. (include lots of RV buildin' stuff too) 
Blue skies!
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RV 7a tip-up
Pre-cover MD-RA Inspected.
Canopy completed. Bonded with Sika-Flex.
Up on her mains, Firewall Fwd and wiring on going.
Last edited by lorne green : 01-13-2013 at 07:31 PM.
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01-13-2013, 07:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Liberty Twp, OH
Posts: 640
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Paul,
Thank you (and everyone else at NASA) for the many years of exploration of the Great Beyond. I've got a few friends who work at Ames, and I'm a big Trekkie. More than a few times as a kid I'd look up at the stars and wonder. I would really look forward to hearing some stories up at Oshkosh sometime.
Enjoy retirement and exploring the Almost Great Beyond of the sky in Tsam and Val, your personal space shuttles.
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Cincinnati, OH, KHAO
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01-13-2013, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Vincent, Ohio
Posts: 737
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Congrats Paul, and well done!
Close one chapter and open another. You and Louise have a full life of love and memories that are yet to come!
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01-13-2013, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Henderson, NV (KBVU)
Posts: 129
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Congrats on your Retirement
Paul,
Congratulations on your retirement. I grew up with the Shuttle program from the glider flights of the Enterprise through its ups and downs. Finally got to see STS-125 launch to the Hubble as I'd always hoped to be able to see. So glad I had that opportunity!
You've been a fantastic help in the RV world and I'm sure we'll see and hear more from you in this next phase of your life. Congrats again!
As an odd coincidence, I drove past Dayton Airpark this morning. I was visiting an RV friend in Carson City (in the car this time) and made my first drive down 95 back to Vegas. I'm sure you'll enjoy northern Nevada!
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01-13-2013, 09:34 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arlington, WA
Posts: 799
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Bravo Zulu! Congratulations on completing an honorable career. Looking forward to learning more from your writings, and talking with you at Oshkosh.
Tailwinds...
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RV-7 N957RV (First Flight on Dec 18, 2009)
RV-14 N144P (Empennage complete, wings almost complete, fuselage almost complete)
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Arlington, WA
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01-14-2013, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Louisville, Ga
Posts: 7,840
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Congratulations, Paul, on a wonderful career that has brought us so many advances in technology, one foot lateral GPS guidance for our ag airplanes as an example.
We have increased crop yields to better feed an ever-growing earth population, as a direct result of the space program and our GPS systems that you guys made possible.
See ya at a fly-in ....somewhere
Best,
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RV6A (Sojourner) 180 HP, Catto 3 Bl (502Hrs), gone...and already missed
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Louisville, Ga
It's never skill or craftsmanship that completes airplanes, it's the will to do so,
Patrick Kenny, EAA 275132
Dues gladly paid!
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