In the 28 years since he founded Miami's National Airlines, Old Pilot George T. (Ted) Baker has feuded at one time or another with virtually every major figure in U.S. commercial aviation. But in the stormy process, he has built National from a 142-mile mail run into the nation's seventh biggest air carrier. Last week, with National's skies sunnier than ever beforethe company's first-quarter earnings this year were almost $3,000,000, v. a $1,400,000 deficit a year agohardhitting Ted Baker abruptly sold out to a man with whom he has little in common save a love of aviation.
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