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Cambias
11/11/08

In reply to An Aviation Show That Will Warp Your Brain
I took the kids to the New England airshow at Westover AFRB. Now THAT, people, is an airshow. F-18s doing stuff that airplanes aren't supposed to be able to do. C-5s looming over the crowd like cathedrals with wings. Vintage warbirds from the Second World War. The Jet Truck. Fried dough. And, oh, yes, the Thunderbirds. Did I mention the Thunderbirds? Watching them scream by overhead at haircut level in red-white-and-blue splendor would give even William Ayres a raging patriotic hardon.

Didn't see anyone with airplane pins in his head. I guess the Chinese are ahead in the batshit crazy fan self-mutilation department. We're ahead in the supernaturally awesome airplanes department.
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Annalee Newitz
11/11/08

@Cambias: Don't diss the batshit crazy department. I think that's the same department that developed the internet.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
11/11/08

In reply to An Aviation Show That Will Warp Your Brain
What was really crazy was when they all joined together and formed a giant robot.
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