No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Remember:
Ventura Publisher?
CompuServe?
Your first mouse (probably to use Ventura Publisher)?
Your Commodore (Pet, Vic 20, 64)?
The Turbo button on your XT or AT?
Paying $1,000 USD in 1989 for your first Deskjet?
The magic of TapCis?
Pirated copies of WordPerfect on single 360K floppies?
WinFax?
Paying $350 USD in 1994 for a PC Card Sound Card for your laptop?
Karateka?
When most people you [...]

So what brought me out of my blog-hibernation?
The retirement of the coolest airplane, ever. The Grumman F14-Tomcat. Even before Tom Cruise, I knew the ‘Cat to be the bestest airplane ever. In my kitplane/flying days, I so wanted to design, build and fly a scale replica pusher-prop Tomcat.
Of course that never happened, even though I [...]