Japan s Constitutional Albatross

Two of the Albatross aircraft were gifts from persons supporting the White Finnish cause, while the third was bought.

We can't see the corridors, and we can't see what it is that brings together a tuna, a leatherback and an albatross.

Same thing with Laysan albatross who travel an entire ocean on a trip sometimes, up to the same zone the tunas use.

Reports have documented that longline fishing is one of the main threats to the survival of the highly endangered Black footed albatross in the Pacific.

It so happens that millions of albatross nesting on Kure and Midway atolls in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument forage here and scavenge whatever they can find for regurgitation to their chicks.

Human powered airplane Gossamer Condor sort of started me in this direction in 1976 and 77, winning the Kremer prize in aviation history, followed by the Albatross. And we began making various odd planes and creatures.

When we released that report, we did so three days after the new president, Kibaki, had decided to pal up with the man that he was going to clean out, Daniel arap Moi, so this report then became a dead albatross around President Kibaki's neck.