Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 13 - “Shuttle Launch” (シャトル発進), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Valkyrie plane, art, plants in 1980s interior design, and Aristeia.

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- NASA fact sheet about the Valkyrie and its service history.

- National Museum of the Air Force page on the Valkyrie.

- Wired article:

Meet the XB-70 Valkyrie, Almost the World's First Nuclear Aircraft, from io9, by Ed Grabianowski, on Dec. 28, 2010.

- National Interest article:

XB-70 Valkyrie: Why Didn't America Build This Mach 3 Monster Bomber? by Dave Majumdar, Jan 19, 2017.

- NASA article about the Valkyrie crash.

- A more extensive page on the crash, including information about its aftermath, from the website of a group of... aviation crash enthusiasts.

- Newspaper article from after the crash, about the inquiry into the causes:

"Colonel Loses Post over XB70 Crash" from The Tuscaloosa News, Aug. 16, 1966.

- National Interest article about the competition between bombers and fighter during the Cold War:

Bombers vs. Fighters in the Jet Era: Who Won the Battle for the Sky?, by Robert Farley, Nov. 24, 2018.

- The author of this book was Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Department of Defense, in the latter 1950s and early 1960s. He was subsequently Chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, and then founding Director of the University of California Insitute on Global Conflict and Cooperation:

Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, Herbert F. York, Simon and Schuster, 1970.

- Screenshots of the art in Amuro's home (the pieces we identified and the ones that have us stumped, plus side by side comparisons of the identified paintings with the work they're based on).

- Wikipedia pages on Jacob van Ruisdael and the painting Windmill at Wijk bij Duursted.

- The Amsterdam Museum's page for De Molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede (Dutch).

- Wikipedia page for Jean Honoré Fragonard, and a page about Fragonard and his most famous works (including The Bathers).

- Wikimedia page for Fragonard's painting,

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