Timeline
- 1914 Birth in Elizabeth, New Jersey
- 1930 (circa) Move to Westfield, New Jersey
- 1930 Pilots license
- 1930 Junior Transcontinental air speed record
- 1931 Flight to Havana
- 1932 Flight to Mexico City
- 1937 Begins at TWA co-piloting DC-2s and DC-3s
- 1939 Howard Hughes buys TWA
- 1943 November, flying B-17G "Two Kind Words" for severe weather atmospheric research.
- 1945 Chief pilot at TWA
- 1945 Lockheed Constellation introduced at TWA
- 1965 Pole to pole around the world flight in Flying Tigers B-707-320G
- 1970 First 747 commercial flight for TWA
- 1970 Writes Weather Flying
- 1973 Time magazine reports: "Jumbo Jet Pilot Robert Buck maintains that soaring is no more hazardous than flying in a commercial airliner"
- 1974 Retires from TWA on January 28
- 1974 Living in Vermont
- 1975 Writes Flying Know-How
- 1981 Induction into the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey
- 1992 Writes Art of Flying'
- 2000 (circa) The Active Retired Pilots of TWA (TARPA) Award of Merit
- 2000 Writes Pilot's Burden: Flight Safety and the Roots of Pilot Error
- 2002 Appears on NPR Morning Edition on April 15
- 2007 Died in Vermont on April 14 at the age of 93
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