Like isn't that what that Oh, So Liberal; Err I
think many called him a socialist President, YIKES! Yuhs know, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (FDR) proclaimed to our nation A-L-L those years ago...
Funny enough, like Y'all know my reoccurring
sentiments here in Nofendersville... As how does time simply fly by? As I-T
behooves Mwah that I've got a 70th Anniversary Pearl Harbour coffee mug, still
in its original box that I got as a "Free-bee" for shopping on Duh
B-I-g' ISLAND! Nee Hawaii, or more succinctly, Kona, sitting in thy Cupboards
unused, which I scribbled 'bout said trip in;
Still marveling today, A-L-L this time later,
over the kindly cashier being the first to ever question my "John Hancock,"
(signature) telling me I-T didn't match the back 'O card...
Yo Sister, I'm FREAKIN' Blind, like can't Yuhs S-E-E my white cane!
AnyHoo, now we're here five years later, and
how times have changed
Quite-a-bit; Hmm? Why does that make me think
'O Bitamyte', eh? Since obviously that's the wrong continent Mates! But I
digress...
Pacific Northwest's cacophony 'O vintage
Aeroplanes...
Strange how one learns 'bout some hidden gems in
their own backyard via local and national print media, which presumably is a
dying form of communication...
It's interesting to think that a small piece
'O history has possibly landed in the Pacific Northwest three quarters of a
century later! As I'll spare Y'all reinventing Duh Wheel so to speak 'bout what
occurred today at 7:55AM in Hawaii at such venues as Hickam Field, etc.
Yet this new discovery of what conceivably is
Femme fatale flight instructor & Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron(WASF)
pilot Cornelia Fort's Interstate Cadet monoplane, now resides in the northern
fringes 'O "The Jet City," nee Seattle, Washington.
As this relatively unheard of Warshintonion'
Aeroplane museo' located in Burlington, WA is naturally celebrating today's
Pearl Harbour anniversary in style, with a Demo' flight of the Interstate Cadet
and a Japanese Zero. As perhaps I can get Tomas Sr. to drag me there one day?
Ironically, I'd just previously scribbled
briefly 'bout what turns out to be another unknown Aeroplane museum north
towards Oh CanaDuh, ARSE-Sumedly guessin' I-T was thee one that The Interstate Cadet was located at;
WRONGO DANNOE!
Having learned of these never heard of before
Hidden Gems at said museum when scribbling 'bout the Red Bull Air Races at
Indianapolis, albeit The Seattle Times noted
it's premises as being located in Concrete, WA.
As the article in my local Fish-wrap was
mostly a photographic expose 'bout thirty-five vintage Aeroplanes making up the
North Cascade Vintage Airplane museum's collection.
As the distance
between these two Skagit County cities is 29-miles, or as "Professor"
(Steve) Matchett would pontificate: 29-miles in Old Money, or 46-kilometers in
New Money; Hya!
And that's before we even get to the Mack
Daddy 'O Vintage Warbird's collection par excellence, nee the Flying Heritage
Collection of some local business tycoon named Mr. Paul G. Allen!
Hmm? Perhaps Y'all have heard of him? After
all he owns some 'lil 'Ol National Football League team named the Seattle
Seahawks, for which I'm treated to thou rapture of his fawning 12S' in my very
neighborhood weekly, whom light off a barrage 'O BOOM-BOOM Fireworks after each
'N every win; YEEHAW!
Not to mention owning some round-ball NBA
Franchise, the Portland Trailblazers. Seattle's other Football team, the Rave
Green, (Sounders FC) along with EMP, formally known as the Experience Music
Project located in the Seattle Centre, to name just a few of his properties; or
may be Y'all know of his past exploits as co-founder of some 'lil company called Microsoft!
While certainly you've heard of his Stratolaunch
Systems controlled by Vulcan Aerospace, right? Part of his Vulcan, Inc.
umbrella 'O companies, with the Aerospace division responsible for the creation
of the Scale Composites Stratolaunch.
With the Stratolaunch being a behemoth 'O
Aeroplane, currently the world's largest, as the Model 351 simply known as
"The Roc" features twin-boom (tail) design, encompassing two mammoth
composite fuselages 238-feet long, with a world-beater's wingspan of 385-feet!
Yeah, that's 15-feet longer each side of an
NFL football field's opposing goal posts! Requiring six Pratt & Whitney
turbofan jet engines to carry a monstrous, currently unsourced rocket to 35,000
feet for unaided air launch commercial space flights!
As presumably Stratolaunch Systems is just a Spin-off
of his overall Aviation passion, which sparked his creation of the FHC )Flying
Heritage Collection) in the late 1990's, located at Everett, Washington's Paine
Field, where the Boeing Company builds
B-I-G 'OL JETLINERS!
As the FHC is not only dedicated to
preserving the rapidly diminishing numbers of vintage warplanes, but also
flying them in public, for which I'm typically serenaded by some of these
"Beasts" flying south to Lake Washington for our annual Seafair
regatta and it's supporting Airshow!
As the FHC has a vast array of American, British, German,
Japanese and Russian vintage airplanes in flying condition, as presumably the
Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" taking part in Burlington's Heritage Museum's
Fly-by today is from this collection?
And then Thar's and
'Ol Salt named Stevie GEE-TAR' Miller from this neck 'O wood's who made thee
Jet City famous with him croonin' about Jet Airplanes - when not busy panderin'
for a Cheeseburger...
VIDEO: Big Jetliner