Operation AXIOM: The Explorers' Club

Thirteen years ago to the day, 27 November 2006, the first episode of "The Explorers' Club" was published here @ The Secret Base. The subject of that inaugural, unnumbered episode—once one slogged through several ill-tempered, rambling paragraphs by your humble narrator—was the Fairey Rotodyne, a one-off experimental British gyrodyne (compound helicopter or compound gyroplane) of the late 1950s-early 1960s: The Explorers' Club, № I.

Over seven hundred episodes later, the world remains fascinating, full of both wonder & woe, neither mutually exclusive to the other. With my own idiosyncrasies, "The Explorers' Club" has naturally focused extensively on history, especially with our observation of the centenary of the Great War of 1914-1918 & its aftermath, which continue to influence & shape current events & trends. There is so much to explore that we shall never run out of subjects for inquiry. I pray that you, dear reader, never lose your passion for exploration, for discovering as much as you can about this glorious creation the Lord gifts, has gifted, & continues to gift to us, our forefathers, & our posterity, 'til Kingdom come.

The first episode of "The Explorers' Club," on the magnificently odd Fairey Rotodyne, was published on 27 November 2006, thirteen years ago today.