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Supersonic Voice of Black Rock Silenced

At St Clement Danes church in London on June 19th, 2017, we sat silently in the pews, and most said farewell to an Air Commodore of the Royal Air Force, but for me it was “Vaya Con Dios Desert Witch.” Out of uniform, she was simply, wonderfully a loyal friend, with which to drink copious quantities of champagne, and explore some beach, woodland, or castle when we were not on some crazy adventure out on the Bonneville Salt Flats. In September 1997, it was a rag tag bunch of dirty Brits I met on the Black Rock Desert. It was …

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ENGINEERING THE FUTURE THROUGH LAND SPEED RACERS

I spent the morning and half the afternoon listening to America’s brain trust talk about how they were making tomorrow better by working out today’s problems in federal laboratories all across the country. This was the annual meeting of the Federal Laboratory Consortium whose organizers had asked me to give the keynote luncheon presentation on land speed racing. As a mere high school graduate who only got college education by sneaking into classes at the Illinois Institute of Technology, impressed doesn’t begin to explain my thoughts about hanging out some of the best brains on the planet, but let’s just …

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