Monday, April 16, 2012
Eric worked with me on NASA's SOFIA Program. He was a valuable asset, an excellent avionics technician. His judgment and knowledge allowed this nationally important program to fly on time every time. Eric arrived at NASA with his friend Eric Wilcox, and the two were “Big Eric” and “Little Eric”. World class technicians both made our work easier. Eric shared his great sense of humor, evident in his “Vort report”, which he emailed to the team to keep us informed of the often difficult technical problems he was tackling. If he could throw a joke in the report everyone laughed. NASA could not compete with his farm, fishing and family. We tried to convert him to a full time NASA technician but that would not have worked with his life outside of NASA. We, the NASA avionics team on SOFIA, will miss the wonderful man and remember his days spent with us, his contributions to the early science flights of the unique SOFIA program made science history. We would have never made it without his expert technical work. Eric buddy, when I get finished here, I will go fishing with you.
