03.19.08 1830 EDT: On the list of Famous
Last Words and Phrases, this one ranks right up there with "Watch
this!" and "I can handle any crosswind!" on the scale of
impending doom: "We're changing servers, but we expect no
issues."
The American Air Museum in Britain stands as a memorial to the
30,000 American airmen who gave their lives flying from UK bases in
defense of liberty during the Second World War, and also honors
those who fought in Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Iraq and other conflicts
and battles of the 20th and 21st centuries.
A swash plate is a device that translates the pilot's (or
autopilot's) commands via the helicopter flight controls into
motion of the main rotor blades.
"One day, some super civilization may encounter this
relic from the vanished species and I may exist in another time.
Move over, Stephen King."
Source: Accomplished science-fiction writer and
visionary Arthur C. Clarke, who passed away Wednesday in Sri Lanka
at the age of 90.
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