This is the extraordinary story of a poor Tennessee farm boy growing up during the depression of the 1930's who longed to be a pilot. His dream was realized when he enlisted in January 1941 as an aviation cadet and, despite being terminated from the basic training program in a disciplinary action, he ended up as a liaison pilot instead as a "flying sergeant." In New Guinea he flew observation in an unarmed piper cub for the 218th heavy Field Artillery Battalion, earning the Silver Star, the Soldier's Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and promotion to second Lieutenant. With the ingenious help of his flight surgeon friend, he was transferred to the 43rd Bombardment Group, the 65th Bombardment Squadron of the Fifth Air Force. He flew 32 missions in B-24 four engine bombers without regular pilot's wings, a feat unequaled in World War II. When Lieutenant Guy was sent home with injuries in December 1944, his superior officers in New Guinea notified Lieutenant General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Commandant of the United States Air Force, about his remarkable story. General Arnold summoned Guy to the Pentagon to have his wings pinned on him by an aide. Guy stayed in the US Air Force for a total of 26 1/2 years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, with chief command pilot's wings. Throughout his career he "bucked the system," defying colonels and generals when he thought he was right, and they were wrong. I have told his story from boyhood to retirement, recounting experiences that appear unbelievable. With World War II veterans dying by the thousands on a daily basis, I felt it was important to tell my husband's unique story while he is still alive, depending upon taped interviews, personal recollections, and his official military records. Dr. Milton Gusack, a flight surgeon with the 43rd Bomb Group, commented: "I loved the book. It is classic Kelly, showing he was a combination of guts, capability, loyalty and stubbornness. This story is a truthful revelation about warfare and how the American spirit was able to survive the most horrible experiences and still maintain a sense of humor." Dr. Ken Wolf, Murray State University history professor said: "Kelly made me think of Forest Gump: Placed in unusual situations, he was unphased by meeting celebrities and persisted in achieving the impossible." Even back in 1958, a writer for the Olmsted AFB newsletter in Pennsylvania wrote a feature about Kelly in the war. Hal L. Eustace, chief of Advertising and Publicity, sent a copy of the story to Tinker AFB where Kelly had been stationed, with a letter stating: "This is one of the most unusual stories that I ever ran across in the service."
Flying without wings: NASA lifting bodies and the birth of the space shuttle [1999]
This book charts the transformation of aircraft into spacecraft and describes the efforts of a small group of NASA pilots and researchers to prove a seemingly impossible aerodynamic concept that would profoundly influence the history of spaceflight. Flying Without Wings begins in the late 1950s with the design and development of an oddly-shaped wingless aircraft known as lifting bodies. Although this was not the technology used to land on the moon, the proponents of lifting bodies continued throughout the 60s and 70s and eventually became central to the design of the first space shuttle launched in 1981.
Author Milton Thompson played a central role in the development of lifting bodies and participated in every step of the development from construction to first flight. He presents a compelling historical account of the adventure, triumphs, setbacks, hair-raising test flights, and sheer fun of pioneering this remarkable technology. Curtis Peebles completed the manuscript and added two chaptersthat describe the lifting body program in the 1980s.
Flying Without Wings: Personal Reflections on Loss, Disability, and Healing [1990]
Flying Without Wings is the powerful story of one man's struggle with
disability–an illuminating and inspirational account of the resilience of the human spirit and its ability to triumph over loss and disability.
The Accidental Cyclist: A modern fable
about flying without wings
Have you ever wondered if stories of magical flying could be really happening? Can humans transcend the constraints of the real world sufficiently to levitate and fly in the mystical, magical, semi-divine sense? Are we fallen angels or gods and goddesses who have lost our powers and cannot find the way back? If you've ever grappled with questions like this, you'll enjoy this book beyond any you have ever read. It delivers answers, real answers, not pap and recycled platitudes such as are found in a number of fashionable best-sellers which are supposed to "reveal" great truths – but don't cut it. Expand you mind, stretch your beliefs, look into the world beyond and see things you never thought were possible. This book will open your eyes to a wonderful new level of Being.
Mixed Emotions presents a collection of musical songs that is developed from a spiritual aspect which reaches and touches the family, children, youth and people from all diversified background. Overall my contribution is designed to mark phases of my own experience as well as to enlighten, stimulate and provoke thought for the reader who might express an interest in a similar believe.
She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul(Google eBook)
Random House Publishing Group, Dec 10, 2008 – Body, Mind & Spirit – 288 pages
From a renowned horsewoman and gifted storyteller comes this groundbreaking new book that explores a powerful relationship like no other: the magical kinship between women and horses.
Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own experiences, and interviews with countless women, we learn, through women’s deeply personal stories, how horses enrich our lives and connect us to nature–making us readers of rhythm and invisible signs, helping us harness our youthful sexuality, sharing the “horsepower” we need to reach our dreams. And here we see how, for thousands of years, the deep kinship between women and horses has connected us to our most intimate feelings of delight, helped us learn to solve problems, and set our creativity free.
From the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to the fiction of Jane Austen to folktales from around the world, She Flies Without Wings uses great literature and myth to encompass a wide spectrum of beliefs and perspectives–and creates a true celebration of speed, air, and the spectacular animal that connects us with both.
Filled with the moving lessons–-about sensuality, commitment, power, nurturance, and spirituality–women riders have known for centuries, written with a loving hand by an expert equestrian, She Flies Without Wings is an eloquent paean to a pairing that enlivened history, inspired literature, and continues to enchant us all.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Helicopter Man: Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Invention
In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist and moved beyond a narrow focus on language to examine the broader social and cultural contexts in which literary works were composed and disseminated. Within the field, this transformation of medieval studies was as important as the genetic revolution to the study of biology and has had an enormous influence on the study of medieval literature. Rethinking the New Medievalism offers both a historical account of the movement and its achievements while indicating—in Nichols’s innovative spirit—still newer directions for medieval studies.
The essays deal with questions of authorship, theology, and material philology and are written by members of a wide philological and critical circle that Nichols nourished for forty years. Daniel Heller-Roazen’s essay, for example, demonstrates the conjunction of the old philology and the new. In a close examination of the history of the words used for maritime raiders from Ancient Greece to the present (pirate, plunderer, bandit), Roazen draws a fine line between lawlessness and lawfulness, between judicial action and war, between war and public policy. Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.
— Sarah Spence, University of Georgia
Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E.: A Sourcebook(Google eBook)
Ramsay MacMullen, Eugene Lane
Fortress Press, Jan 1, 1992 – Religion – 296 pages
This book is a collection of nearly 175 documents?from saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting types?that sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately gained preeminence. This treasury of texts leads the reader through the matrix of beliefs among which Christianity grew. It includes both Christian and non-Christian sources, avoiding a common but obscuring division between the two. The material is presented as one single flow that satisfies natural curiosity and whets the reader's appetite for more. Brief explanatory introductions to the documents are included.
[Verse 1]
Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You'll find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be
Some find it in the faces of their children
Some find it in their lovers eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you find that special thing
You're flying without wings
[Verse 2]
Some find it sharing in every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You'll find it in the works of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry
You'll find it in the deepest friendships
The kind you cherish all your lives
And when you know how much that means
You have found that special thing
You're flying without wings
[Bridge]
So impossible as they may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
'Cuz who's to know which one you let go
Would have made you complete
[Verse 3]
But for me it's waking up beside you
To watch the sun rise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
At any given time or place
It's the little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine, all mine
And it's the flying without wings
'Cuz you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings
You're the place my life begins
And you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings
And that's the joy it brings
I'm flying without wings
The day of birth of influential people in our society coincides with activity at the Tokamak fusion reactors. You can say they are literally creating the stars we idolize. Don't you see, don't follow any false idols. You are the star of the universe.
Here's is a compilation of some of the notable names pertaining to the year and the tokamak reactors:
Fusion power has the potential to provide sufficient energy to satisfy mounting demand, and to do so sustainably, with a relatively small impact on the environment.
Within the tokamak, we see field coils, the vacuum vessel, blanket modules, divertor cassettes, and equipment for heating and diagnostics. Visible is one of the high-energy neutral beam injectors that heat and drive the plasma. The fusion fuel consists of deuterium and tritium, which are isotopes of ordinary hydrogen (shown in red and green in the visualization). To produce fusion reactions, the fuel must be heated to a temperature of about one hundred million degrees – about ten times the temperature of the core of the sun. At such temperatures, the electrons of atoms are stripped from the nuclei forming as a state of matter called plasma. One method of achieving these high temperatures is by injecting beams of high-energy neutral atoms into the tokamak. An initial plasma is formed and heated by driving an electric current through the fuel gas in the tokamak chamber. When the plasma reaches a sufficient density and temperature, the injectors are turned on. Because injected atoms are electrically neutral, they are unaffected by the magnetic field and can penetrate deep into the plasma before being ionized by collisions with plasma particles. These very energetic beam ions are trapped by the magnetic field and circulate throughout the plasma, colliding with the plasma particles and transferring energy to them. As the temperature of the plasma rises, due to the beam heating, fusion reactions between the plasma deuterium and tritium begin to occur.
While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor’s public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
Cost: 198.8 Million European Units of Account (predecessor to the Euro). JET was completed in 1983.[9] This is roughly 438 Million in 2014 US dollars.[10]
Scientists at Oxfordshire are preparing for the fusion testing set to begin in 2015. They hope to break their own record of 16 megawatts of fusion power.[12]
Tore Supra is a French tokamak that began operating after the discontinuation of TFR
It now holds the record of the longest plasma duration time for a tokamak (6 minutes 30 seconds and over 1000 MJ of energy injected and extracted in 2003)
ITER began in 1985 as a Reagan–Gorbachev[19][20] initiative[20][21] with the equal participation of the Soviet Union, European Union (through EURATOM), the United States, and Japan through the 1988–1998 initial design phases.
The sky is crying, and the flags are at half-mast. It is a sad, sad day. But it is also your day, Noah, my little man. I will miss your forceful and purposeful little steps stomping through our house. I will miss your perpetual smile, the twinkle in your dark blue eyes, framed by eyelashes that would be the envy of any lady in this room.
Most of all, I will miss your visions of your future. You wanted to be a doctor, a soldier, a taco factory manager. It was your favorite food, and no doubt you wanted to ensure that the world kept producing tacos.
You were a little boy whose life force had all the gravitational pull of a celestial body. You were light and love, mischief and pranks. You adored your family with every fiber of your 6-year-old being. We are all of us elevated in our humanity by having known you. A little maverick, who didn’t always want to do his schoolwork or clean up his toys, when practicing his ninja moves or Super Mario on the Wii seemed far more important.
Noah, you will not pass through this way again. I can only believe that you were planted on Earth to bloom in heaven. Take flight, my boy. Soar. You now have the wings you always wanted. Go to that peaceful valley that we will all one day come to know. I will join you someday. Not today. I still have lots of mommy love to give to Danielle, Michael, Sophia and Arielle.
Until then, your melody will linger in our hearts forever. Momma loves you, little man.
Not sure if that’s a eulogy for a little kid, or for another dimension.
But I digress.
Other mentions for taco:
Lego Movie – Taco Tuesday Feb 7, 2014 and what a coincidence that on Feb 7, 2014 the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory published this :
Title: Toroidal Rotation in ECH H-Modes in DIII-D (A24310)
Let’s see what happened on that day elsewhere:
May 21, 2003
[MASS/GRAVITY] An earthquake in northern Algeria measures 6.7 on the Richter scale; at least 1,600 are feared dead and 7,000 injured. (The largest earthquake to hit Algeria occurred in May, 2003. Nearly two thousand people were killed in Algiers and Boumerdes province, in the centre of the country.)
[HEAT/THERMAL] An explosion occurs inside the Yale University’s Sterling Law School Building in New Haven, Connecticut(Pretty close to Sandy Hook, Connecticut), damaging two rooms. Investigators from the Joint Terrorism Task Horse respond. No injuries reported. Authorities strongly believe the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb.
[TIME/SATURN] In Britain, the convicted child-killer Mary Bell, now living under a new name and assumed identity, wins her High Court battle for anonymity. (Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is a British woman who, as a child, strangled to death two little boys in Scotswood, an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne. She was convicted in December 1968 of the manslaughter of the two boys, Martin Brown (aged four) and Brian Howe (aged three). Bell was 11 when she was convicted for killing Brown and Howe.[1])
[VIBRATION/FREQUENCY] In a close vote, Ruben Studdard beat out Clay Aiken to become the next American Idol. The second season of American Idol premiered on January 21, 2003, and continued until May 21, 2003
was a pogrom (a series of coordinated deadly attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.[1] The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.[2]
Historical events for November 1938:
8th – 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
8th – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
9th – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’ Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
9th – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
10th – 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
10th – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
So I hope you can see, that whatever it is we are doing with these fusion reactors, it requires participation from things around it, whether you like it or not.
Will keep searching but i definitely see a pattern.
I have a hard time believing this line:
Mastering thermonuclear energy would provide mankind with an inexhaustible, safe and ecologically acceptable energy source.
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Noah Pozner’s Taco Factory Dream Becomes a Reality With ‘Tacos for Noah’
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