Several aircraft-related things circulating around my mind right now: a rocket launch, via aircraft launch, from UK this evening; how I used to build and fly those balsa wood, tissue covered, rubberband powered, airplanes before my health collapsed; how attractive and intriguing the early polished wood, and fabric, and wire, with shiny metal bits, early aircraft were/are.
samples:
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitle ... XI/1803861
and
https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitle ... /2652677/L
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"There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good."
Tom Mueller of SpaceX, in Air and Space, Jan. 2011