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A pretty bird, no doubt. But the Spitty brings that heart-stoppingly gorgeous elliptical planform that's absent here. For that alone, there's no comparison twixt the two.

Santa comes at the END of the T'ksgiving Day Parade! No Christmas allowed before that! (After, knock yerself out.)

Back to 1967.

Best wishes, Colleen! I hope that the coming year will be rewarding for you.

My good friend Ross Sharp got some amusing reactions when he called this "the Fury Monoplane". 😉

I shall request it; not listed at present.

Just finished reading "McNamara at War" by the brothers Taubman (Recommended!) ...and, yeah. History does that rhyming thing...

Hey remember that whole "Bluesky doesn't have algorithms" thing

Pre-ww2, the NYU-Fordham game at Yankee Stadium was called "The Battle of the Bronx". Big time sports faded away at NYU after the war, football ended in early '50's, b-ball (at MSG!) lasted into the '70's. (NYU '60's alum from the Bronx here.)

Nice. He followed, of course, in the wake of Capt. Joshua Slocum who sailed his "Spray" around in the closing years of the 19th century. His "Sailing Alone Around the World" is available via Project Gutenberg. (Slocum departed later for a 2nd circumnavigation and...vanished.)

Dollar Bill stood head and shoulders above the rest; but he could never resolve the how-do-we-govern question in his own mind. A real loss, I think.

I'm 3/4 thru reading "McNamara at War" by the brothers Taubman (recommended!), I was around back then ('60's) and yeah, history do sorta rhyme, eh?

Oh, to have been in the meeting about getting the structural test airfame to Dayton, where somebody 1st said "hey I bet we could just sling it under a B-36 and fly it there..."

I think nobody had better mess with these ladies. Lots of low-BS-tolerance in that group photo (and hurrah for them!)

There are two kinds of ships: submarines and targets.