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TTailedTiger wrote:Wow, I thought he was much older than 70. I don't know much about him so I'll assume he was a good enough person. But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
cpd wrote:Very sad day. I respected him very greatly.
He was integral to making the McLaren TAG-Turbo project a success - his cunning plan to get the engine in the car earlier ultimately made it a success.
cpd wrote:TTailedTiger wrote:Wow, I thought he was much older than 70. I don't know much about him so I'll assume he was a good enough person. But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
I think the looking old was to do with the awful accident where he was so badly burned. It's a miracle he survived it.
On Youtube, there are a couple of good interviews with him - one on the Lauda Air 767 crash, another one on his relations with James Hunt, both interesting. The Hunt one is both funny and sad at the same time.
How else would you name an airline? Lauda Air is simple and easy to remember, so is Fly Niki. Why not?
TTailedTiger wrote:Wow, I thought he was much older than 70. I don't know much about him so I'll assume he was a good enough person. But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
TTailedTiger wrote:Well David Neelman chose JetBlue instead of his name. Same for the founders of just about all of the other airlines.
TTailedTiger wrote:But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
scbriml wrote:A sad loss of an F1 legend. The long-term effects of his horrible crash in 1976 obviously took their toll.TTailedTiger wrote:But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
My Mother once advised me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn't think of anything nice to say. Wise words.
TheFlyingDisk wrote:cpd wrote:Very sad day. I respected him very greatly.
He was integral to making the McLaren TAG-Turbo project a success - his cunning plan to get the engine in the car earlier ultimately made it a success.
I was just reading about this last week when out of a sudden I decided to Google about TAG. Yes, he was integral to the first Ron Dennis-led McLaren championship.
F1 sure lost a lot this year. First Charlie Whiting, and now Lauda. Both died on the week of a Grand Prix.
BN727227Ultra wrote:racing driver of some repute:
TheFlyingDisk wrote:3-times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda, founder of Lauda Air & Niki, the man who is well known for actually going into the jungles of Thailand when his airline's 767 crashed & found the problem that Boeing didn't admit to at first, have passed away due to health complications.
May he rest in peace.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ealth.html
scbriml wrote:A sad loss of an F1 legend. The long-term effects of his horrible crash in 1976 obviously took their toll.TTailedTiger wrote:But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
My Mother once advised me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn't think of anything nice to say. Wise words.
Magog wrote:scbriml wrote:A sad loss of an F1 legend. The long-term effects of his horrible crash in 1976 obviously took their toll.TTailedTiger wrote:But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
My Mother once advised me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn't think of anything nice to say. Wise words.
Apparently she preferred passive aggressiveness.
GalaxyFlyer wrote:He just took delivery of the first customer G7500. RIP Niki.
scbriml wrote:A sad loss of an F1 legend. The long-term effects of his horrible crash in 1976 obviously took their toll.TTailedTiger wrote:But I do think he was a little narcissistic with naming three airlines after himself. That was just weird.
My Mother once advised me to keep my mouth shut if I couldn't think of anything nice to say. Wise words.
AirwayBill wrote:Very talented and humble man. He was an actual pilot at his own airline Lauda Air, which was to him like a 2nd family that he was very proud of.
Not to mention that he personally travelled to the crash site in Thailand when that dreadful accident happened in 1991. He dealt with the matter in a much more human way than most airline executives have done ever since.
This is a great loss for many.