Give me the open sky

[ Late, but for happy reasons, to be explained anon. ]

So what did I learn from watching the Ace Drummond serial?

( The Dragon, though commanding, was also dumb. Indeed, one could say he was commandingly dumb.  )

Trivia: On winning, in 1914, a patent covering ailerons as well as wing-warping methods of controlling aircraft, the Wright Company announced it would charge a 20 percent royalty on every airplane manufactured in the United States, although Orville Wright said he would follow a ``policy of leniency'' for every company with the exception of Glenn Curtiss's. Source: To Conquer The Air: The Wright Brothers And The Great Race For Flight, James Tobin.

Currently Reading: Dark Lord Of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones.