Phil's 90th Birthday...

... would have been today.
And had his faculties not begun to falter, he would be all for this ongoing ‘high-end’ work.
As of Nov. ‘17 this major gesture in public by one Innovation-Leader at USMC HQ at Base Quantico:https://ww.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2017-11/fighting-forward-ensure-littoral-access
In so many ways the best of our collaborative effectiveness, good to find our LCU-F without apparent conceptual competition on this top-level of design-performance.
More on this if and when something is to be shared again.

In the meantime, the MAIB sequence is up to #519, as in that many discussions of first his, and later our work – possibly the longest such anywhere...
While he insisted on shared by-lines in various publications, the MAIB-format left folks guessing who wrote what piece.
Since the July-issue of 2009 it’s obviously been just me, unless explicitly quoted from Phil’s work, or a revisit of an earlier piece by him.
In the last issue a piece on ‘Sinking-Resistance’.
The work continues.

Susanne