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Hey, I know that bird!

Excellent! These posts drop every Tuesday and Friday. My goal is to go an entire year. Wish me luck!

Yeah, but at least the VJ-101 went supersonic, didn’t it?

Well, I think you got just about every one of them! The XFV-12 was pretty much an unmitigated disaster. It looked good on paper, but never had enough thrust to get off the ground. As a boy, I remember looking at this proposal drawing in one of my fighter plane books and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. It…

I love airplanes and all, but in my heart, I’m a history guy.

A day at the office.

Here’s a bit of perspective: Wilbur and Orville Wright made their famous First Flight on December 17, 1903. Orville Wright was 32 years old. Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 on October 14, 1947. Orville Wright would die three months later (Wilbur died in 1912 at age 45 from typhoid fever). So, the world went…

As my mother always says, “Use a word in a sentence and it’s yours for life.”

It’s a great word.

An excerpt*:

Interesting. When they closed the old Mueller Airport in Austin and moved it out to the old Air Force base, they started redeveloping all the land into houses, condos, shops, etc. But they the old tower, built in 1961. One of these days, they are going to restore it. But I’m not sure what it will be restored into. I’m…

Lelystadt, Netherlands.

True.

Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.

Uh, huh-huh. “Tools.” I said, snap on, not...

I lived in Norfolk, VA back in the ‘80s, and we constantly saw Tomcats and Hornets out of NAS Oceana, Hawkeyes out of NAS Norfolk. When we went down to the Outer Banks, you could hear the sonic booms from out over the ocean. But we took it for granted. I miss it now.

That comment was crass, rude, insensitive boorish. I approve.

Never saw that one. I sure wish they would let us back in to see the other ones. With current events, though, there’s no chance of that.

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