aerial navigation

Mamet’s amicus brief is titled “Lessons from Aerial Navigation,” and as it’s two pages long, you should really just go read it.

In May 1943, he had passed 20 hours of training in Aerial Navigation with the intention of joining the Army Air Corps.

Once Upon a Time takes place just a few months after Lee Scoresby acquires his hot-air balloon in a poker game, when he’s still learning the ins and outs of flying—aided by a tattered book called The Elements of Aerial Navigation, but only the first half, because it’s been torn in two and he doesn’t have the rest of it.

Cheap robotic platforms like Doggo allow researchers to rapidly improve on control systems, the same way cheap quadcopters led to a huge boost in aerial navigation.

But with its comedy, romance, satanic menace, the spoofing of Stalinism, theological speculation and aerial navigation by a pig, the show offers much to think about and savor.