MaxPete

Very cool - I like the Mariner too! ...one truism I have read about flying boats: a wrench dropped, is a wrench lost...

Oh wow - it sure looks like that airplane is moving under its own power. I sure hope they did a good "FOD-walk" prior to the parade.....

What remarkable airplanes - the XB-35 and the YB-49.... I wonder how many people would know the correct answer to the question: Name...

Yeah....women. Like you, I have often noticed that they do have an odd-ball sense of humour.

....now THAT would certainly spill the tea of the self-loading cargo inside....

In the fall of 1994 I was teaching as a guest professor at Loyal Marymount Univ. in Los Angeles (wow - what a place!) and one day in...

.....aaaaaannnnnddddd......

Gary: I'd suggest checking on the NHTSA website - and see if the US Govt has done any investigations and / or recieved a large number...

There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators...