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PEERLESS PLANES, QEII, BLT AND BTS

The largest airplane, Stratolaunch  ( by wingspan ), flew for the second time last month, a decade after first imagined by someone I mentioned this past Sunday , Paul Allen, who with Bill Gates founded Microsoft.  Unfortunately, Allen never saw it take flight.  Read the details here . That plane will be reminiscent of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose , the wooden ( made of birch, not spruce ) Flying Boat that was originally designed to ferry American troops to Europe to avoid being sunk by German submarines.  It was six times larger than any aircraft of its time, and made only one flight, in 1947.  The plane can today be found, of all the places, in McMinnville, Oregon, where volunteers are trying to restore it. Did you know the USA has a  Doomsday Plane ? The following video indicates the power of Queen Elizabeth II.  Donald Trump is not mentioned, but the Queen cannot be arrested and pays her taxes...even though she legally does not need to do this.  She is the largest landowner in th