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...architects who met in Boston were asked to name the men they thought best qualified to design the building. (Walton counted the votes in a hangar at Logan Airport, then did away with the ballots to preserve the secrecy the architects demanded.) They had agreed, with the six foreigners among them vigorously concurring, that the architect should be an American. Almost everyone listed Mies van der Rohe, the German-born septuagenarian who is generally looked upon (along with LeCorbusier and the late Frank Lloyd Wright) as one of the three greatest architects of the 20th century. Most of the selections...
...dead were set down in front of a U.S. Air Force hangar, and Belgian Catholic priests performed the last rites...
...historically past World War I Jennys to more than 80 types of aircraft famed in military aviation. The winged exhibits, designed by Herb Rosenthal & Associates, sit on various levels more like discoveries than displays. The sparrowlike Spads of the Lafayette Escadrille will be shaded under Roche's giant hangar along with the B-52, B58 and the advanced Lockheed...
Like Black Marbles. The Air Force trundled not one, but two A-11s onto the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., had a third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
They taxied not in a taxi, though, but in the Cessna 170 they keep in the backyard hangar. The neighbors find nothing odd about that. They have airplanes in their backyards...