Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]oh, from me, the word "impractical" is hardly pejorative. -rei On Aug12 16:05, Marc James Small wrote: > At 03:48 PM 8/12/2007, Rei Shinozuka wrote: > >any prepubescent who ever pored over the september 1965 national > >geographic "Air Force: Power For Peace" issue will know how these > >fabulous and often impractical machines were nevertheless > >able to capture our young imaginations. > > I remember that issue quite well and there was > noting impractical about the XB-70 project. It > was killed only because of "Liein' Lydon's" > concentration on guns and butter during his > fixation on the Viet-Nam War. (Douglas MacArthur > spent his later years trying to convince the US > government to avoid a land war in Asia, a policy > he had first advocated in 1943.) > > I have seen the aircraft. It is > magnificent. Somewhere, I have some shots I took > of it a decade back with my M6. If I come across > them, I shall post them, though this is > unlikely: I have box and box after box of > negatives and little time to go through them all. > > Marc > > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey