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 ...

Although Edward “Ed” James Swearingen had very little formal education — he dropped out of school after the eighth grade — his mechanical genius led him to create or contribute to the development and ...

As a result of the golden years in general aviation from 1966 to mid-1969, new models of airplanes and equipment have been surfacing at record rates. (Aviation has probably progressed further in those ...