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This past week, somebody put out a graphic combining the new Steve Trevor from the Wonder Woman movie with the current Captain America (who as we know, has the real name of Steve Rogers) with the title Steves on a Plane.

Being the airplane/comics nerd that I am, I could not let that go past.  So to Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, I proposed the ( Read more... )

A very long time ago, I received a bunch of built-up 1/72 airplane models--including FIVE F4U Corsairs.  (One Airfix, two Heller [now SMER] and two old-production Revell, to be specific.)  They were all in bad shape and poorly built to begin with, so I stripped the paint off, carefully disassembled them and started looking for alternative parts.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 5, 2016
"Anybody can become angry," said Greek philosopher Aristotle. "That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." I'm pleased to inform you, Sagittarius ( Read more... )

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(I found out a fact this week I should have known decades ago.)  The Feggans Brown company, which built aircraft mockups for movies and TV series, also built scores of Daleks for various Doctor Who productions.


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Superman 2 was on one of the TV networks we get this afternoon, and I have to say it hasn't aged as well as I expected.  It got me thinking about things like speed and how we perceive motion.

I'm about average size for a human being.  If I went like the Man of Steel and flew at a rate of my own body's "flight length" per second, that's only about 5 ( Read more... )

Almost six whole years after I first posted about it here I finally got a copy of Sky Crawlers on DVD ( Read more... )

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