Hello everyone. I only feel slightly less anonymous than I did ten minutes ago, but hey, we're all friends here, right? I mean, while I don't feel a need for phasers and photon torpedoes, I never go anywhere without my shields. I read and accept the terms, I only hope there are no serious hackers lurking. (That having been said, I guess I'll find out.) Anyway, I'm glad to be part of the crowd. Having grown up during the Cold War and Vietnam, I was inundated with military conditioning, so I have a predisposition deeply imbedded in my psyche to admire the elegant machines celebrated by this site, and to regard as beautiful machines engineered for lethal purposes. There's a certain ambiguity, or is it ambivalence in the handle I chose: C-47. While I love it as the DC-3, its incarnation as the C-47 wants this recognition. While it is true that there is no peaceful use for a cannon, the DC-3/C-47 demonstrates that there is versatility sometimes, like men who become warriors, then surviving the conflict, return to what they preserved. Anyway, glad to join you. Greetings from America!