One can judge the power of a company by the number of words it forced into the modern-day vocabulary, and few such entities come close to ruling the dictionary as Harley-Davidson. Just think knucklehead, or shovelhead, or Softail, among others, and the image of the Milwaukee company instantly pops into one’s head.
Like it or not, plastic rules the toy industry, and in theory that’s the way it should be, for a number of reasons that can range from safety for kids to aesthetics. But one can never deny the coolness (both figuratively and literally) of metal toys.
For military aviation and space enthusiasts, the name Bob Springer speaks volumes. The American test pilot and astronaut flew two space shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990, spending over 230 hours in space, and before that he clocked some 500 combat sorties in the Vietnam war.
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