• Nose Art: Mistress Quickly

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    Mistress Quickly Nose ArtMISTRESS QUICKLY (3/13/53)

    Dr. Albert EinsteinDr. Albert Einstein, who guided the scientific mission of the VGL for nearly fifty years, loved Shakespeare as much as he loved physics. It was no surprise, therefore, that he once quoted Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor to describe VGL pilots as the “orphan heirs of fixed destiny.” When the great scientist died in 1956, the VGL memorialized him by naming a transport pod after his favorite Shakespearean character.

    MISTRESS QUICKLY I: Type: UFT 2B
    Commissioned: December, 1956
    Twenty-one missions, 1956-57
    Grounded for structural flaws and decommissioned: July 1957
    MISTRESS QUICKLY II: Type: System 2.5
    Commissioned: September, 1992

     

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