If everyone continues to use ‘Westland’ it won’t fall into disuse or ultimately die.

Indeed. They say that a man is never truly dead until he is forgotten. The same goes for a company.

How terrible — my condolences to the victims and their kin.

The numbers:

— Attacks at upwards of seven or more sites.

— Reports of well over 100 dead, mostly at a concert hall.

— Five attackers dead, one taken alive, and others seen escaping by car. Reports of four lawmen killed retaking the concert hall.

The response:

— The city under curfew for the first time since 1944.

— The first nationwide state of emergency in more than 50 years.

— 1,500 troops deployed in the city.

— All border crossings closed, although the airports and rail stations are open and operating.

— The floodlights turned off at the Eiffel Tower.

The situation is constantly changing. A roundup of news reports:

http://www.drudgereport.com/

New info reporting an earlier incident :

A British plane carrying 189 passengers came ‘within 1,000ft’ of a rocket as it approached Sharm El Sheikh,
The Department for Transport confirmed the incident took place on August 23 – just two months before a Metrojet plane crashed in central Sinai, killing all 224 on board

Now there are reports that the rocket or missile was a flare or some sort of surface-to-surface weapon from an Egyptian Army exercise:

http://fox13now.com/2015/11/08/report-british-passenger-jet-narrowly-avoided-missile-in-egypt-this-year/

Whatever the model, it’s nice they took the effort to streamline it…must have really boosted its top speed.

They’re from the days when everything from bakelite radios to diesel locomotives were streamlined. This 1949 Seagrave “fire sedan” is downright rakish:

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/03/22/making-a-miracle-in-montana/

LIS I watched when I came home from school

Thanks! Many people have similar memories. I saw Angela Cartwright (“Penny Robinson”) at a convention near Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this month. I didn’t get a chance to talk to her because there were plenty of fans gathered at her table.

The Luftwaffe used captured B-17s posing as stragglers to infiltrate and attack 8th Air Force formations. This became enough of a problem that the 8th Air Force issued an order that stragglers were not to be allowed into formations.

This practice was dramatized in “The Loneliest Place in the World”, the first episode of second season of 12 O’Clock High.

I caught sight of the Bird Innovator back in 1997 during a layover at the Albuquerque International Airport, New Mexico. No mistaking a four-engine PBY!

Glad to see that it’s still around. It probably had more of a future than the forlorn Pam Am 727s parked nearby.