Yada yada yada the fella was a notable test pilot many moons ago ... amongst other things, he was the first fella to fly the Bell X-1 (the x-planes, if you care, were a series of experimental rocket planes designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret).

The reason we're here at the moment is for the following gem. Would that it were so I could have one paragraph written about me that entertained others as much as this one entertains me to no bloody end. To wit:

Author Sterling Michael Pavelec records that Woolams once joined a group of trainee pilots while flying the experimental P-59 jet airplane. The trainees, surprised to see a plane flying without propellers, were astonished to see Woolans flying the plane wearing an old Halloween gorilla mask, a bowler hat and smoking a cigar. Woolans waved at them and flew away.

Phenomenal.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

How's everything going Don? Doing OK? Need to borrow 20$ ?