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As we grieved the untimely death of Joe Towers in the October 1993 issue, none of us here imagined we would be paying tribute so soon to another young photographer.
On 4 January, Mark Meyer died suddenly of a heart attack while working on a plane in a hangar near his Delaware home. That he died at an airport seems somehow fitting; Mark always was most at home in the air.
He became interested in photographing military aircraft and weapons as an airman in the U.S. Navy, during the Vietnam War. One of his tirst published photographs appeared in the 1970 Nava! Review, part of the Naval Institute’s annual photo contest. Mark was a White House photographer during the Carter adminis-
tration before landing a staff position with Time magazine, where he traveled extensively as a military photographer from 1982 to 1988. During that time, he enjoyed success with Wings, a 1984 photo book about fighter aviation, and a historical photographic tribute titled. Classics: Aircraft of World War II.
Mark was a frequent contributor to Proceedings and a welcome visitor to our editorial offices. We published his unique aerial photography—often shot from unusual and difficult angles—many times in our pages. We will miss him and his stellar work.