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Well said. And atter so many decades, I still can't get enough of looking at them. They just don't make them like that anymore.

My embarrassment got even worse today and owe you a few more apologies. The "Clarence L Kelly Johnson" you replied in my post, wasn't clickable on my phone for some unknown reasons. Today, I was using my tablet and checked out other posts including your link and I could click it. Oh, my...

As an old new member, I welcome you Sir. And as an old aviator, I wish you the best in your flying career ahead. Many happy landings. Tom

Isn't that the Vulcan greetings or farewell from Star Trek, but who cares, I'm an old SiFi fan and love them both, as long as it has "stars" in it. Galaxies are even better.. It's a bummer that they are dragging out Star Trek IV. I'm tired of rerunning the old ones. STAR TREK 4 Now please...

Thank for this great post. I'm a fan of aviation history. I haven't read it in its entity yet, I will take my time enjoying every word and photo. Thank you for taking the time to present this great work of history lesson for aviation lovers. Tom

Thank you for your service Sir. I have known about kelly johnson for many years since a young pilot but nothing about Mr. Rich until I started writing the post. I'm sure you have your valid reasons for your preferences, specially being so close to those aircrafts and I do respect your judgment...

Thank you for reading my post and welcoming me to this forum. I read on your T-shirt "Education is impotant...." which is very true and I just used my own imagination to finish that sentence with "....but flying is more fun" Thank you again for your kind words. Tom

Hello Administrator, I believe the last replies to my post have vanished. There was a very educating and important long reply from "Skier" to which I also replied thanking him/her for the post. Could you please look into this? I thought there is a page 2 but apparently I can't find it. Thank you

"live each day like it might be your last." I believe losing a friend with that kind of mindset is a sad loss, no sympathy as you requested but I hope you accept my condolences. Tom

Yes, i do agree with you and i should apologize to those who have great knowledge of giants such a Kelly Johnson. As I wrote in the post, in conversations with young pilots, I found vast majority didn't even heard the name. However he is a well know VIP and I try to correct the title without...

Actually active brain is rather a fortunate asset. People with more brain activity are less subject to brain diseases. Also, in corporation think-tanks, they ask participants to say the very first think (or thing) that comes to their mind. I am not an expert, but the first thought are from...

Couldn't agree more; horrible and very embarrassing.for the author of the post.

Thank you so much for your help. It's done but I'm sure I get to correct more. I should be more careful using Swype on my phone and tablet, it's a great feature but not an excuse for typos.

Thank you for mention of the book "The Skunk Works" which must be a great read.. And I appreciate the link. As a new member I'm not allowed to have any web links in my first 5 posts. The link you posted is another good source of information about this great man.

Thank you for your attention and correction. It's embarrassing. I'm very sorry. I hope the moderator would let me correct that.

Thank you Sir for clarification and I'm sorry for my misunderstanding, I thought I misspelled or left out his full name. He is one my heroes and I shall admit that I didn't know about his book until I wrote this post. I intend to get the book, it must be a great read.

Correct, and I have it quoted as such in the post: "Kelly Johnson (Clarence Leonard "Kelly"Johnson)"

Less known Avaition VIPs - of course except Kelly Johnson. Great aviators such as Charles Lindberg, Amelia Erhard and Chuck Yeager who dared to push the seemingly impossible boundaries and shape the history of aviation are widely known to us. They broke the sound barriers, crossed oceans with...

The age years as a numbers is just counting the wobbling dance of earth around the sun. The heart of an aviator, the spirit of expedition and the never ending urge to find "what's around the next bend" doesn't pay attention to those numbers and keeps us young at heart and soul.

Thank you for the location's name "Straits of Mackinac" which wasn't known to me. I thought it's somewhere on the Irish coastline but I looked it up and got to see some nice images in Great Lakes. Even those photos with big chunks of ice floating under the bridge have their own stories to tell.