Seaweed Biochar Airplanes
" What does the Doolittle Raid on Japan have in common with the Battle of Britain? — Aviation fuel. " James Harold Doolittle was born into a rocky river camp near Nome in 1896. His father, Frank, a carpenter-woodworker, had dragged the family from California to the frozen frontier chasing the shiny dust shaken from sieves and dreams of a quick fortune. Through howling winters and black fly-biting summers, “Dusty” Doolittle grew up with his American father’s fearless recklessness and his German mother’s iron will. When mom left Frank to go back to California, Dusty boxed for nickels, hawked newspapers, and tinkered with engines. He was seven when Orville Wright defied gravity, sitting in front of a 12 HP, 1025 rpm, in-line four at Kitty Hawk. At 15, while working as a janitor, “Jimmy” as he was then coming to be known, snuck into classes at U.C. Berkeley. At 21, he enlisted as a flying cadet in the Army Signal Corps Reserve. Training at Rockwell Field, he surv...
