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Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aeronautics and astronautics. Yours truly would very much like to offer you a peroration, if not quite a pontification, on one of the most famous combat aircraft of the 20th century – an aircraft acquired in February 1971 by what was then the National Aeronautical Collection, today’s Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa / Rockcliffe, Ontario. (Hello, EG!) The story of the Fokker D.VII was / is inseparable from that of

It just occurred to me that our blog / bulletin / thingee had not reached for the stars for some / many weeks. The Canada Aviation and Space Museum being what it is, this failing on my part must be rectified. Honour demands no less. Humour demands no less either. And yes, this will be the second time this month that yours truly has used editorial cartoons as anchors for articles of our blog / bulletin / thingee. What can I say (type?), I like editorial cartoons. This one, entitled “To Venus With