Who once claimed that the inventor of the KISS principle "can actually see air?"
Hall Hibbard
Kelly Johnson (engineer)
Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer.
 He is recognized for his contributions to a series of important aircraft designs, most notably the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
 Besides the first production aircraft to exceed Mach 3, he also produced the first fighter capable of Mach 2, the United States' first operational jet fighter, as well as the first U.S. fighter to exceed 400 mph, and many other contributions to a large number of aircraft.
 As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an "organizing genius".
 He played a leading role in the design of over forty aircraft, including several honored with the prestigious Collier Trophy, acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers in the history of aviation.
 In 2003, as part of its commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight, "Aviation Week & Space Technology" ranked Johnson 8th on its list of the top 100 "most important, most interesting, and most influential people" in the first century of aerospace.
 Hall Hibbard, Johnson's Lockheed boss, referring to Johnson's Swedish ancestry once remarked to Ben Rich: "That damned Swede can actually see air."
KISS principle
KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.
 The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
 The phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson (1910–1990).
 The term "KISS principle" was in popular use by 1970.
 Variations on the phrase include "Keep it Simple, Silly", "keep it short and simple", "keep it simple and straightforward" and "keep it small and simple".
Instruction creep
Instruction creep occurs when instructions increase in number and size over time until they are unmanageable.
 It can be insidious and damaging to the success of large groups such as corporations, originating from ignorance of the KISS principle and resulting in over-complex (as opposed to "simplified") procedures that are often misunderstood, followed with great irritation, or ignored. Flyover country
Flyover country, flyover states, and Flyoverland are American phrases describing the parts of the United States between the East and the West Coasts.
 The terms, which are sometimes used pejoratively, but more often defensively, refer to the interior regions of the country passed over during transcontinental flights, particularly flights between the nation's two most populous urban agglomerations, the Northeastern Megalopolis and Southern California.
 "Flyover country" thus refers to the part of the country that some Americans only view by air and never actually see in person at ground level. Air New Zealand destinations
This is a list of destinations served by Air New Zealand.
 The airline serves 31 international destinations in 19 countries.
 For additional services see Air New Zealand Link companies Air Nelson and Mount Cook Airline.
 Terminated destinations are also listed (excluding those served only by its predecessors, TEAL and National Airways Corporation). Overengineering
Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the designing of a product to be more robust or complicated than is necessary for its application, either (charitably) to ensure sufficient factor of safety, sufficient functionality, or because of design errors.
 Overengineering can be desirable when safety or performance on a particular criterion is critical, or when extremely broad functionality is required, but it is generally criticized from the point of view of value engineering as wasteful.
 As a design philosophy, such overcomplexity is the opposite of the less is more school of thought (and hence a violation of the KISS principle and parsimony). Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon
The Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon was a German automatic cannon developed for aircraft use during World War I by "Stahlwerke Becker".
 It was first mass-produced in 1916 and was installed in a variety of aircraft.
 It was the only German autocannon to actually see service in the air during the war. American Volunteer Group
The American Volunteer Groups were volunteer air units organized by the United States government to aid the Nationalist government of China against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
 The only unit to actually see combat was the 1st AVG, popularly known as the Flying Tigers. Air kiss
An air kiss, blown kiss, or thrown kiss is a ritual or social gesture whose meaning is basically the same as that of many forms of kissing.
 The air kiss is a pretence of kissing: the lips are pursed as if kissing, but without actually touching the other person's body.
 Sometimes, the air kiss includes touching cheek-to-cheek.
 Also, the gesture may be accompanied by the "mwah" sound.
 The onomatopoeic word mwah (i.e. "a representation of the sound of a kiss") has entered Webster's dictionary. Sean Forbes
Sean Forbes (born February 5, 1982 in Detroit) is a deaf American hip-hop artist.
 Sean became deaf from spinal meningitis when he was just a few months old.
 The cause was never officially diagnosed but Sean has said that they (the doctors) had suspected spinal meningitis.
 Sean's parents bought him a drum set when he was 5 years old and he started writing songs and playing guitar when he was 10.
 Sean grew up playing music with his siblings.
 His dad, Scott Forbes, is in a Detroit country-rock band called The Forbes Brothers.
 Sean's mom is a pianist.
 "They played everything from The Rolling stones to The Beatles, all big band music and stuff like that."
 Sean attended R.I.T./N.T.I.D. where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in multi-disciplinary studies focusing on management, accounting, and communications.
 Eminem was one of the first people to actually see one of Forbes' music videos.
 Sean's long-time producer and collaborator is Jake Bass, and together they have penned over 100 songs, many of which they perform live.
 Sean recently had Oscar award-winning actress Marlee Matlin co-star in his music video for the song "Let's Mambo."
 "Rapping is just something that I do because you don't want to hear me sing."