Recent content by Pete Girard

In culling the personal info, I inadvertently cut off the closing remarks, which contained a poem that I suspect is familiar to most who post here: Part 4 Lastly, I would like to quote the well-known poem “High Flight”, by John Gillespie Magee, himself an American aviator and poet killed while...

Tribute to Peter F. Girard, by Peter G. Girard, delivered 3 March, 2011, Part 3/3 When the film ‘The Right Stuff’ appeared, I asked him about the type of go-for-broke attitude the film seemed to portray. He hadn’t seen the film, but he did have a very firm opinion about the type of character...

Tribute to Peter F. Girard, by Peter G. Girard, delivered 3 March, 2011, Part 2/3 He was often away during that period of our youth, conducting flight tests on new manned or unmanned aircraft at the Yuma Proving Grounds, or giving briefings at the Pentagon or at the Aeronautical Systems Center...

Well, I am his eldest son, he was Peter Frank Girard, he married the Admiral's daughter and I am Peter Gehres Girard, 'Gehres' is my grandfather's (the Admiral's) name. Perhaps my father's career and interests are best summed up in the eulogy I gave at his funeral, it is edited to remove some...

Nah, that was my father, passed away a few years ago. I also have his helmets, goggles and other stuff.

He was about 6'2", weighed about 185#, I may have that jacket in a closet.