Take Off!

Many thanks to my friend Jim in Pasadena for this wonderful clip of the new F-35B vertical take off tests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki86x1WKPmE  Naysayers said that it would likely burn holes in the deck or blow seamen into the sea!  Neither of which happened.  When I see this type of thing I'm reminded of a remark a man said to me in New York as I watched the ticker tape parade for the returning astronauts from the moon.  It was my very first visit to America in 1969: "Never underestimate the technological capability of the Untied States!"