Passing of an aviation legend

Edward “Ed” J. Swearingen, who worked with aviation pioneers Dee Howard and Bill Lear, and started his own company developing, among others, the Swearingen Merlin and Metro series, died Thursday of complications following hip surgery at 88.

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