Originally Posted by
treadigraph
I always thought John Llewellyn was British but he wasn't!
I must have missed the reference to Hodge crossing Kraft, I'll have to re-read Kranz's book soon.
You'd think so wouldn't you...
I'm not sure Hodge "crossed" Kraft as such, but they certainly had a falling out..
In the Oral history (link in the OP) Hodge stated:
"That's the first time Chris and I had a falling-out, which I find I do very often with my bosses. He appointed a whole bunch of new flight directors and I didn't know anything about it before he did that, and I was so pissed off that I decided to leave the operations game."
As far as the Krantz account goes it's on page 227 of my copy of "Failure is not an option..." Krantz states Hodge and Craft had had disagreements over some policy issues and that he believed "Chris thought John was too conservative to be a flight director" ...Elsewhere in the book of course Krantz speaks highly of Hodge, as I guess you'd expect.