[geeks] assistance: qty 2 of certain French banknote

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:00:51PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> Antoine de Saint Exupery is best known today as the author of the
> book, "The Little Prince" but he was also a very courageous pilot who
> flew recon missions over Northern Africa.  He wrote 2 books about
> flying, one called "Flight to Arras" and the other "Wind Sand and
> Stars".

Goes to show where my prclivities lie.  It wasn't until this year that I
learned Saint-Exupery wrote The Little Prince, but I've known for
probably thirty years that he flew with the Free French.  (I first read
Brickhill, and Bader, and Pierre Closterman, when I was about 12.  Mmm,
Hawker Tempests ....  one of the fastest things in the air in WW2, for
about five minutes at a time, if you used the emergency throttle gate.  
But then you had to throttle back to 2000rpm for 20 minutes to let the
engine cool down.)


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