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 Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 7:21 pm Post subject: OT: Constellation by Adrien Bosc, a novel exploring an actu |
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Interesting, Bill.
And shows we're doing it wrong, with our 100 degree-only tooling. No wonder the nesting is never quite 100%. What practical difference does this make? Apparently very little.
-Bill Boyd
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Bill Watson <Mauledriver(at)nc.rr.com (Mauledriver(at)nc.rr.com)> wrote:
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Pardon this completely off-topic post but I'm half way through a quite enjoyable novel that explores the 1949 crash of a Lockheed Constellation in the Azores. Normally my reading tends towards the non-fiction and technical but I try to read the occasional novel. "Constellation" caught my eye for the obvious reasons. Though translated from French, it is a quick and easy read that focuses, so far, on the lives impacted by the crash....
But what lives they are! Transoceanic flight, made routine by the war, is the Worldwide Web of the mid-20th century. It is an essential connection for both everyman moving through the world as well as for the people who conspire to move the world. Interestingly halfway through this 170 page novel, I found a reference to this Disney film clip on flush riveting. Some of you may have seen it because it is as accurate and complete today and it was then.
But this little reference combined with the story of an air crash is just a bit of icing on the cake. The flush riveting film clip is linked to a larger story that revolves around a Mr Kay Kamen and Walt Disney. A story that includes the origin of the Mickey Mouse watch and practically every product ever merchandised in conjunction with a movie character.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share my current enthusiasm for this little book with the list in the hope that a couple of you might find it worth a look. That is all.
Bill "time to go clean up the workshop and do some maintaining" Watson
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