Voila! The Voisin 8 (photo by me):

Read that, decades ago. Actually a terrific book. Over a beer, sometime, I can tell you how the author got the last word of the story wrong.

Just for info, the X-15 pic is from a while ago. The D-558-II Skyrocket is no longer suspended above the east escalator; space now occupied by an Albatross D.5 and a Voison 8 from WW1. The X-15 (ship #1 of 3) is back as it was then.

A memory there. About '85 or '86 I flew BOI to SLC on a UA 727 (like the ones in the pic). Old bird, remember the mid-cabin galleys? After landing, Skipper gets on the PA, & sez: "Congratulations, you have just flown on the very 1st Boeing 727, s/n 1".

The Douglas Model 8 was an export version of the Northrop A-17.

I always liked the Devon more. (But, I'm a Dash 7 stan, too. Something about 4 engines...)

Congratulations, Laurie. That's a good peer group you're in.

Good for a bar bet question: What's the only US aircraft of WW2 that reached squadron service, of which not a single example remains extant. 100% scrapped.

Jerrie's Cessna 180, Spirit of Columbus, is displayed in the "We All Fly" gallery at NASM's building on the Mall in DC. (Pics below by me.) Come visit and see it!

That's likely a Syrian AF MiG-17F acquired via Israel in 1969 for HAVE FERRY. Flown by 4477th Tactics and Evaluation Sqdrn at Groom Lake, NV. Cover desig. may have been YF-114C. It crashed at Tonopah, NV on 8/23/1979 while dogfighting a Northrop F-5. Pilot USN Lt. M. Hugh Brown did not survive.

My excellent county library has a copy I've just now queued for (I'm #3). Thanks for the point-out!

She looks gorgeous!

This a/c was 6th of a lot of 281 ordered as Martin A-30 for RAF service as Baltimores. This was MSN 3792, s/n 41-27687. After delivery assigned as of 6/10/1943 to Langley Mem'l Aero. Lab in Virginia (see "LMAL" on photo). To RAF on 3/10/1944. Crash landed at Ikeja, Nigeria on ferry flight 7/28/1944.

I've always found it interesting that at ALL the bridge and tunnel crossing on the borders of New Jersey, they charge you to get out but getting in is free.

Interested in "standard questions". If these are ubiquitous then corresponding "standard answers" will be rife in the corpus on which AIs are trained and will inevitibly be cycled back to you. Perhaps strive for non-standard questions?

Wait...non-cat-person here. Each feline has its own...um, repository? Do they trespass? Are they territorial about their, er, facilities? Could they be convinced to share, thus simplifying your assignment?

Well, the Skipper sat anywhere he wanted to. But the OOD and helmsman were on the bridge which is under the flight deck forward, about 15% of LOA back from the bow. You can see the srbd bridge wing there in the pic.