• The Passenger

    This line runs forever, or at least to the Gulch where the steel rails twist and the gravel Embankment crumbles into finer sand. Never alone, There is a passenger. The engine is fast–anticipate the Crash and you’ll miss the family slide show Playing on the other side of the glass. Chromatic stills flash in the window with Each …

  • Demonology

    All roads lead to Rome, or, in this case, Monroeville, Pennsyvania, the home of the Westinghouse Electric Company. It is impossible to study naval aviation in the 1950s without the story being overshadowed by the failure of the Westinghouse J40 turbojet engine.  One could argure with no small amount of justification that the failure of that program is the …

  • Beobachtungsuhr

    Most of the visitors to this site are aviation enthusiasts.  Some of us are even fanatics.  While we may never get to pilot an aircraft, it can be great fun to add some of the aesthetics to our lives in the form of a good leather jacket or, in this case, a watch.  It doesn’t …

  • Delta Dagger

    The Convair F-102A eventually became known as the Interim Interceptor as the Air Defese Command awaited its Ultimate Interceptor, the F-106A Delta Dart.  This is a fitting appelation, as the F-102 bridged the gap between stright-winged aircraft such as the F-89 Scorpion armed with unguided rockets or guns, and the high-performance guided-missile-armed F-106.  The F-102′s …