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East Meets West

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ome projects seem so natural, it appears as if the parts were destined to eventually be together. And then there are projects that are destined to never be truly finished because ideas keep popping up. And then there is Herb

8 AUGUST 2008

Clark’s UPF Waco. It’s both of the foregoing: a natural combination of components that will be constantly mutating as the mental winds in Herb’s mind change direction. First, it’s not actually fair to say Herb’s gleaming white UPF will never be finished, because to look

at it, it is finished. However, given the series of forward and back, now-it’s-finished, no-it-isn’t phases of this particular Waco’s life, if you were to believe in trend analysis, you would bet that there’s yet another phase coming up in this airplane’s future.