Young -- editor of a local history group -- remains confident, going on to say that "It's not complex" and that much of the message relies on acronyms that becameprevalent in WWI due to the short battery life of morse code systems.
Global temperatures were cooling from the late 1940s through the late 1970s, yet NOAA records show strong tornadoes became more prevalent as global temperatures cooled.
But as knowledge of how to control the risks of flying accumulated as checklists and flight simulators became more prevalent and sophisticated the danger diminished, values of safety and conscientiousness prevailed, and the rock-star status of the test pilots was gone.