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They made a remarkable sound going over. Friend of mine did a lot of test work on the B36, including high altitude Vmc tests. They'd start on one wing tip shutting down one engine (2 jets, 3 recips) at a time until it went complete out of control. Can you imagine purposefully flinging something...

You forget just how damn LONG that thing really is until you see it out of context like that. Amazing how many years it has remained a viable system. I was in England when the first one landed at Brize (a very long time ago), and remember the tail towering over the B47s. It didn't do their...

Day late on this, but: I love February because it contains two of my favorite annual events Groundhog Day, and the State of the Union Address. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a notoriously unreliable mammal for prognostication with no basis in reality. The other involves...

Jesse Kelly, The Anticommunist Manifesto. Illuminating and terrifying perspective on how we got where we are, and where it's really heading.

Well, darn hard to pick. They're each just downright lovable in their own way.