The blue of its feathers stood out even against the blue of the pre-dawn light. It was a male mountain bluebird, of course, ...

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On a grassy strip beside the runway at McConnell Air Force ... On post-war electronic countermeasures missions in the late 1940s, sitting directly behind the pilot and facing backward, he ...