On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:52:12 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Henry Spencer wrote:

So, should we take up a collection to get that last sentence put on a
suitably-located billboard to celebrate publication? :-)

[In case there are newcomers to the group who find this a trifle cryptic:
(a) Ken Iliff is Mary Shafer's husband; (b) one of their wedding gifts was
a billboard with a snide comment on it, paid for by co-workers.]

It would be cool to have a autographed copy signed by both Mary and Mr.
Mary Shafer, and with Buzz and Neil's pawprints on it.

Neil and Buzz are up for it. They'll even throw in some shed hair and
a noseprint as a bonus. Maybe we'll get a carton and auction them off
on eBay.

We didn't even know about this announcement until I read rk's posting.
Ken was kind of startled by it. We've kept it very quiet because
there has been some question about it being published. Funding, you
know.

Did anyone else notice that Don Mallick's book is coming out in
December? That should be an interesting one, too.

Ken's book is really quite good, even though I'm heavily biased. He
worked really hard to find photos that hadn't been published all the
time, including getting some from my collection. It's a first-hand
narrative and it's very well-done. It's also very informative and
gives a good idea of some of the tedium that goes with the excitement
of flight research.

Bill Dana wrote the Foreword and he's right, the title of the NASP
chapter is worth the price of the book. Bill is a really great guy
and can be very funny.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer