Seeing these two great works of mid-20th Century American engineering genius and manufacturing power together for the last time.....makes me think. Do we still have the men that can not only design such things....but more importantly dream of them to begin with, then with fire, hammer and tong....build the bastards.
Or, more likely we would now send the CAD file to Japan for optimization with final fabrication and assembly in Shanghai.
Still. They are beautiful. Thank you for the post.
I think most Americans are ‘genetically coded’ with the ability to do it. They have just been stripped of the desire and use of that ability thanks to liberal social fantasies. Whether the pollution that would result or the aggressive image it would pose, we cannot risk offending someone.
They are indeed things of beauty and we’ll likely never see their like built anew.