ere listed are the sources used to write the "Labnotes" column "Captaining the Skies."
Official Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Movie Site: www.skycaptain.com
Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD: "Hot Air Balloon," "Transportation, History of"
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: www.wikipedia.org, "Crimson Skies," "Monoplane," "Airship," "Ornithopter"
The Internet Movie Database: www.imdb.com, "Sky Captain," "The Rocketeer," "Zombies of the Stratosphere," "G-Men vs. Black Dragon"
U.S. Navy: "M61A1 Vulcan Cannon"
Goodyear Blimp: Our Fleet
The Ornithopter Zone: www.ornithopter.org, www.ornithopter.org/flappingwings/toporov.htm
Wil McCarthy is a rocket guidance engineer, robot designer, nanotechnologist, science-fiction author and occasional aquanaut. He has contributed to three interplanetary spacecraft, five communication and weather satellites, a line of landmine-clearing robots and some other "really cool stuff" he can't tell us about. His short writings have graced the pages of Analog, Asimov's, Wired, Nature and other major publications, and his book-length works include the New York Times notable Bloom, Amazon "Best of Y2K" The Collapsium and most recently Lost in Transmission. His acclaimed nonfiction book, Hacking Matter, is now available in paperback.
