Dr. John L. McLucas secretary of the Air Force 1920-2002. (In Memoriam).(Obituary)

Dr. John L. MeLucas who served as under secretary of the Air Force from 1969 to 1973, as secretary of the Air Force 1973 to 1975, and as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from 1975 to 1977, died on December 1, 2002 of respiratory failure at Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. McLucas, eighty-two, had suffered from poor health since undergoing heart surgery some ten years ago, but remained active as a writer, lecturer, and consultant. He was proud to be considered a "technocrat."

Born on August 22, 1920, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, McLu