The musings of a madman...

It's 1946 and the Douglas Aircraft Company introduces a piston-powered airliner and transport plane that they initially thought or hoped would be used for military transport at the behest of the US Air Force. Unfortunately for them, WWII ended sooner than expected, the Air Force reneged and they had to change their plans a bit, working it over for longer-range transport. Phlip note - I would LOVE to be able to issue directives that say something like "I want something that dos this, this, this and this... All of you present me with them, and I will reimburse you for your time spent doing it, then I will buy them from you when you produce them. ... no, wait... Don't need it anymore. Tough break, maybe next time, homie!" I find it kind of refreshing to look back over these posts and see that they actually DID use piston-powered engines in some of these, instead of the "everything is a damned jet" we have nowadays. Something about 4 enormous radial engines thu

*****Posting live from...***** ... the middle room at Granny's house... Slept in my own house last night, tonight I will be doing the same, in a BED even!!! This whole situation is all at once exciting, scary and new. It will be all for the best, though, and I am closer still to everything I will need -- 4 blocks from grocery, liquor and fast food -- and my trek to things like the gym and the highway to get to work are that much easier as well. All should be fine once we're fully in the house and fully furnished, THAT is when the housewarming is. Anyone looking to contribute financially or materially can contact me directly. PLEASE!!! *****Since...***** Barack wanted to be a hater and go on and win the presidency, I was a bit out of luck in the support of my candidate, Samuel Leroy Jackson of the B ad M other F ucker party. We have, earlier on in the season, unfortunately lost the King of Pop and I was presented with a hilarious graphic last week, and it immediately placed me

Told y'all I was going to do this... The year is 1937 and the United States is requesting, on Circular Proposal X-608 a set of specifics for what they want in a fighter craft. They wanted a high-altitude, high-performance craft to go up, catch some folks and deliver them a warm plate of death. Later in the year, Lockheed came forward with the goods and won the contract. Construction began July of 1938 (hence the "38" in nomenclature) and Lockheed -- since, "Lockheed Martin" -- has been raking yours and my tax money ever since, in spite of my repeated attempts to be employed by them. Fuckers... No further history lesson or specification regurgitating will be necessary, as either of you will likely be bored or otherwise wouldn't care, so I will just make with the photographs. This will be my first foray into the "aeromotive pr0ns" in the blog, but with ideas gotten just in my collecting of THESE images, it won't be anywhere NEAR my last. Thanks t