“…and have most unfairly failed to give credit to TIGHAR’s own robust denouncement of the credibility of this report…”

I really don’t care whether you do that or don’t. I was simply pointing out the ease with which too many people **** on Tighar without any solid reason to do so. Let Tighar do its work, and if it comes to naught you can perch on the highest branch and crow away, though I do hope that if Tighar ultimately turns out to have been correct, you’ll climb up there and apologize.

Either way, those who can’t actually do the work, criticize.

Do remember that judging from both his signature and his spelling it would seem that English is not his native language. The monolingual among us–and that would include me–are too quick to criticize.

Which has nothing to do with whether the item he’s selling is a wooden prop, a barstool or a fiberglass wall-hanger.

I’ll be darned, I always thought Merlins turned “backward” (as an American), but I guess I never considered the Mustang…

I had lunch in Washington with John Fozard not long before he died–he was the man who essentially “designed” the 1127–and he animatedly drew a variety of thrust-vectoring nozzles and other design features for me on several napkins while he explained the workings of the craft. I kept them, of course, and as I remember, I sent them to my friend Mike Jerram…

There’s a toolbar at the top that you don’t immediately notice. Clicking on its various options will take you wherever you want to go.

“The MiG-29 blunder is a classic…”

Not a blunder, it was a hydraulic failure well-handled by the pilot, but you have to be able to understand the commentary, in Russian, to know that.