I had the same reaction. It felt like a sneaky publicity for Agile. On the other hand, the writer found one hell of a nice hook to get people to read the article.
It was a good story, but I stopped when it got to: "Speed through the loop beats quality and this is something we can apply to all aspects of the software development process." The jump from piloting a plane to "its therefore obviously true for software" without a shred of evidence was a little too much for me.