While packing for tomorrow’s early morning flight to San Juan, I happened to catch my computer playing a random Bell X1 song and the aerospace engineer in me went all gleeful. Of course, I should expect this from a band named for the Bell X-1 experimental aircraft in which Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound. But Bell X1 have a song about the monkey the U.S. sent up in its first Project Mercury flight! The lyrics even read like they’re straight out of The Right Stuff. *does a happy little dance of amusement*
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Sea — for Catwoman!
I love Bell X1. Just. Yeah.
I suspect that I’d like them even more if I heard more of them. But the references to aerospace geekery delight me all the same!