ON PSEUDOARCHAEOLOGY
DID ALIENS BUILD the Egyptian pyramids? Were the Americas first populated by Western Europeans? A growing number of people believe in such claptrap, according to Science magazine, published weekly by … Continue reading
CELEBRATING THE BROWN DERBY(S)
I WAS VERY WELL connected at Hollywood’s Brown Derby restaurant, albeit only briefly. A recent mention of this restaurant on SiriusXM “Radio Classics” rekindled the memory. There were actually four … Continue reading
DOUGLAS DST: WHEN FLYING WAS RESTFUL
THE DOUGLAS SLEEPER TRANSPORT arose through airline competition. Transcontinental Air Transport flights in 1929 were anything but uneventful. For example, TAT passengers interspersed train travel with segments aboard Ford Tri-Motors. … Continue reading
THE CARS OF DONALD HEALEY
I HAD A SECRET crush on a high-school math teacher who drove an Austin-Healey Hundred. This recollection came to mind while I was rearranging my Automobile Quarterly collection, far from … Continue reading
HAIL TO THEE (WHOEVER HE OR SHE IS) PART 2
WE CONTINUE OUR celebration of national personifications here in Part 2 by encountering a previous SimanaitisSays cameo, a British yeoman, and an All-American. Germany’s Arminius. Arminius, aka Hermann the German, … Continue reading
HAIL TO THEE (WHOEVER HE OR SHE IS) PART 1
IN THESE PERHAPS overly nationalistic times, it seems appropriate to review national characters, emblematic personages of the world. Plenty of countries get by with a generic Mother This or Father … Continue reading
TEGERNSEE—A TOUR OF TIMELESS ART
TEGERNSEE IS IN the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. This lake isn’t very large, about 4 miles by less than a mile, its Alpine-fed water eventually reaching the Danube, known … Continue reading
IF ONE FUSELAGE IS GOOD,… PART 2
THE STRATOLAUNCH flew yesterday in Part 1 at SimanaitisSays. Today we offer tidbits on other aerial applications of multiple fuselages. The North American F-82 Twin-Mustang was the last American piston-engine … Continue reading
IF ONE FUSELAGE IS GOOD,… PART 1
NEWS OF THE Stratolaunch aircraft’s first flight, in The New York Times, April 14, 2019, brings to mind other twin-fuselage designs. These range from an Italian flying boat in the … Continue reading
THINKING OUTSIDE THE (BLACK) BOX
DO YOU RECALL Douglas Adams’ book and movie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Deep Thought, its giant computer (with Helen Mirren’s voice), is asked the Greatest Question of Life. … Continue reading
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