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In a drawer, I found my old Autoquartett (Car Quartet) as well as Schiffsquartett (Ships Q.) and, you guessed it, Flugzeugquartett (Aircraft Q.) card sets, and others, from about 1970 (plus/minus two years, maybe).
Now the "Quartett" game in German seems to be the equivalent of what in English is called "Happy Families" (not that I ever knew that until now). You have to collect as many groups of four cards as possible to win.
However, it was the rage over here in those days (especially in the fifteen-minute breaks between classes at school) to play it like what I also never knew until now as "Top Trumps" [shudder, regarding the latter word]. Your card was about a certain item (car, ship, aircraft) where the technical features were listed, and you won if you collected all of them by comparing your card to the others and winning in a category that was picked by the one whose turn it was. In 90 per cent of the cases it was cars that were the subject, but sometimes we also extended that to ships and planes.
The following is the card for the B-58, followed by the B-52. So my knowledge of these types is really deep-rooted...or at least about 50 years old.
On the B-58 card, I even added the service ceiling (Dienstgipfelhöhe = Dgh.) of 18,700 meters (~61,000 ft), and with the B-52 I seem to have underlined the unbeatable number of engines (8).
Ah, childhood memories...
I also like the Sigma association, plus have a plan to approach the Mercury, Ulysses, and other than Greek items/crossovers.
And then of course, if someone desires somewhat Bond-related car quartet cards, here are a few:
Wally Schirra's original Speedmaster is now a part of the Omega Museum collection in Switzerland.
(Speedmaster-Mission.net)
Hasselblad camera.
And its OO7 counterpart--the Hasselblad camera Signature gun.
Wally with both of his, plus an image taken from space.
To raise the bar, would the next level be Bondathlon?
One-liner skills. Taste in fine food, drink, women. Staying the distance in movie viewings.
Still standing ready to support an MI6 member in need. Community and country.
Segue to biathlon. At least one of those. I'll catch up.
Earlier in the film, on screen Chinese (CGI) MiGs are likely (non-delta wing) MiG-23s. If the filmmakers had favored reality they would have stuck with the MiG-21.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
impdb.org/index.php?title=Tomorrow_Never_Dies#Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23
In the Raymond Benson Tomorrow Never Dies novelization, MiG-29s appear in Bond's opening mission at the terrorist arms bazaar. (And the aircraft shot down by Carver's stealth ship and located underwater are MiG-21s.)
Mikoyan MiG-29
(Tenuous Bond connection: Rosamund Pike is in the cast. But really I just wanted to post a picture of Gillian Anderson holding a cat.)
(The cat is called Philby and I cannot believe I remembered that.)
1. a white horse with wings, maker of wells with a hoof stomp
2. the constellation, Northern Hemisphere, adjoins Aquarius, Andromeda
Greek (Pēgasos, from pêgê, fountain). Latin (Pēgasus, Pegasi).
Pegasos: a white, winged horse in Greek myth. Immortal. Born of a union between Poseidon (in bird or horse form) and Medusa—when Perseus cut off the Gorgon’s head brothers Pegasos and Chryasor emerged. The horse of the Muses. In competition between the nine Muses and the nine daughters of Pierus on Mount Helicon, darkness of heaven, sea, and rivers came with the daughters’ song. Helicon rose upward. Zeus compelled Pegasos to kick the mountain, creating the well of the Muses, Hippocrene. And other Greek wells.
Hero Bellephoron (helped by Athena) caught and trained Pegasos to aid his battle with Chimera, then against the Amazons. Bellephoron sought to ride Pegasos to Mount Olympus--Zeus threw Bellephoron off. So only Pegasos completed the journey— becoming the bearer of thunder and lightning from Zeus—and the constellation itself. The rise of the constellation Pegasos signals Spring.
Popular in Greek art and coin, many times with Bellephoron or Athena.
Pegasos
Bellephoron with Pegasos battles Chimera.
Chimera against Bellephoron and Pegasos.
Another Pegasus: Fusaichi Pegasus - $64 Million worth.
Pegaso VAP 3550 Military armored vehicle. 00:55:59
The Bronze Horseman (Peter the Great), Senate Square , Saint Petersburg, Russia. Commissioned by Catherine the Great. French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
*cough* TLD. Excellent Greeking, though!
TLD also contains a Harrier powered by the Pegasus engine :)
And what brand of sneakers does Craig wear, at least in the CR Venice scenes? Right.
T4A
Rolls Royce 103 Pegasus engine.
Okay, I want to confirm this one, @j_w_pepper.
In his personal life Daniel Craig
has worn the Nike Air Pegasus 83s.
So the path taken here is obviously...the Greek Goddess Nike.
[I actually expected a different segue from Pegasus.]
The deepest of deep undercover investigations. I am very impressed.
Not Greek but probably the most interesting aviation story to me is the incredible event of Britain handing over Rolls Royce jet engine technology to the Soviet Union--literally a gift.
Used for their MiG-15, the Korean War match to our US F-86 Sabre Jet.
On the MiG-15 from Wikipedia:
Recommended: The Hunters by James Salter.
!!!
That is my favourite novel. (I know. You're astonished.)
I bought it as a holiday read because it had planes on the cover, and quickly realised I'd stumbled upon something really special.
In 2013 I was lucky enough to see James Salter speak at the South Bank (he died two years later). I'm shy about asking questions in front of an audience, and everyone in this audience was asking very serious, highbrow literary questions, so I waited until he was signing my tatty paperback Hunters to mutter "What was it like flying Sabres?"
"Oh, I can't tell you in one word," he said. "It's a kick, that's what it is. It's wonderful."
He was wonderful.
You must have read his autobiography Burning the Days. One quote from him crystallizes the meaning of The Hunters for me, as it speaks to the realities (and deep frustrations) of military service.
And hurrah, @j_w_pepper! I hope you love it as much as I do, or nearly!
Apollo and a giant leap for mankind are definitely in play.
You know we can squeeze out a couple more references on that one.