Okay, I give up, where is the political part of the story? It is basically a simple human interest story about honoring an aviation pioneer with a one-time gesture.
I do agree with you about AvWeb taking the stance to remove off-topic and abusive comments from their articles. It is a fine line to have to walk between censorship and the open free-for-all that the comments have become recently. I must admit that I was very close to deleting AvWeb from my browser because I had grown tired of all the negative and derogatory rhetoric that had taken over the comments. I welcome the input of people who know the subject and have something relevant to add, whether I agree with them or not. But the personal derogatory insults and party-bashing that pops up in almost every story blaming the current administration for everything from bad weather to dental cavities had gone too far.