Im sure youre as relieved as i am that i am no longer doing this from between the barn door and the bookcase, but i do appreciate everybody being so kind and understanding. I have continued to test negative for covid19 myself throughout my quarantine. My most recent negative test was today, for which i am grateful beyond measure. My partner, susan, whos been positive, is doing much better and shes going to be fine, and as, again, as my quarantine ends, as i am back in the studio for the first time in more than two weeks, i just want to say thanks to everybody who made this possible made it possible for me to be away to come back in the interim way that i did and to everybody who wished us well. Your prayers and well wishes made a huge difference to me and my family, so, im a real person. These things happen. I thank you. All right, were going to start tonight in a most Rachel Maddow show kind of way, by talking about airplanes, specifically talking about a kind of airplane that susans
And, again, as my quarantine ends, as im back in the studio for the first time in more than two weeks, i just want to say thanks to everybody who made it possible for me to be away, to come back in the interim way i did, and to everybody who wished us well. Your prayers and well wishes made a huge difference to me and my family. So im a real person. These things happen. I thank you. All right. Were going to start tonight in a most Rachel Maddow show kind of way by talking about airplanes, specifically talking about a kind of airplane that susans dad used to fly back in the day. He was a commercial airline pilot. This is a dash 80. Its a big fourengine jet that boeing started making in the mid1950s. The dash 80 would later become the basis for the boeing 707, which was of course a famous passenger aircraft. But the dash 80 would also evolve on the military side in a bunch of really interesting ways. The dash 80 first evolved on the military side into something called the stratolifter, w