Leonard Greene; Invented Lifesaving Aviation Tools

By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 6, 2006; B07

Leonard M. Greene, 88, an aviation-safety innovator who
received patents for helping pilots avoid deadly wind
hazards and who used his fortune to fund an economic policy
think tank, a group that flies cancer patients to hospitals
and ventures into America's Cup racing, died Nov. 30 at
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center. He had lung cancer.

Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D-Ohio), a former astronaut,
inducted Mr. Greene into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
in 1991 and placed him among "American inventors who have
changed our world in ways we can see every day of our
lives."