"AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY IN THE UPPER AIR Taking observations of Halley's comet from a balloon" from The Graphic, v. 81, May 18th 1910. Illustration by Henri Lanos (web.archive.org/web/2008092310…)

welcome to Conair! “A mid 70s shot of the Conair Fleet at Abbotsford Airport (YXX), including TBMs, A-26s and the Venerable DC6. This was also the period in time when Conair transitioned from 337 Skymasters to TS60 Aerostars as air attack platforms” (rb.gy/p69gq)

Patent US5984231A, 1998 "Aircraft with variable forward-sweep wing" Northrop Grumman Corp (patents.google.com/patent/US59842…) this was known as the "Switchblade" concept (though there was also a more recent oblique-wing UAV project of the same name)

leafing through an old book on bird migration: "..these extreme records [of Arctic Terns] demonstrate that the maximum extent of bird migrations is limited not by the capabilities of the birds, but by the size of the planet." 💪

"A P2V-3C makes a JATO-assisted takeoff from USS Midway" (babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug…) the aim of this very long-range "Nuclear" Neptune variant was to deliver an atomic bomb, and then either find a friendly airfield or ditch into the sea..