Corridus-

Thanks for bringing us up to date. Now all we have to worry about is what happens when you try to dive bomb Mizzenchip from Freddy's biplane. What model plane did he choose, the Fokker DVIII or the Sopwith Camel? Do be careful when grinding and mixing the exlosive components. One little spark and you're out of there.

Reminds me of the time I was advisor to the science club at the Technical School in Ethiopia where I was a Peace Corps teacher in the early 1960's. The students approached me one day, requesting the formula for rocket fuel. I dutifully looked it up in my old reference book TWENTIETH CENTURY FORMULAS under pyrotecnics and ascertained that what they needed were equal parts of sulphur, carbon, and potassium nitrate. They went off happily to mix it up. I didn't think much about it until they invited me for a test firing and I saw the six-cylinder rocket launcher they had built, each rocket being about a foot long and cast out of aluminum, with an electric firing mechanism. This was a technical school I reminded myself. I would continue this story but I'm probably boring people...

Emperor Haile Selassie survived his visit to the school the next week, as did I.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble