In my case, "Hangar Queen" is a hard military SF story. Tough to go to war when your cruiser is broken and the other ships keep stripping it for parts so THEY can go to war. (grin) I first read about "hangar queens" in a book about F4 Phantoms in Vietnam. Naturally, regs say you can't actually have a hangar queen, so periodically they'd take their current one, strip off anything left that was good, but make it flyable. Very funny passage in that book about flying an F4 as an open air cockpit with no hydraulics on the landing gear (welded in the down position) for a five minute hop to another base.

Nothing like persevering under adversity.

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