Some beginnings lead to glory; some start brilliantly and end unremarkably, and others emerge, a shooting star, disappearing but leaving a bright impression. Such is the Palomino with its dappled history, a kit plane that in the 1950s galloped upon the scene with its gaze fixed on the certificated horizon, reared a couple times, and was then just gone. It says a lot about how people felt about the Palomino, how they believed in it, that over the course of its long and winding road to obscurity, it was pushed for certification at least three different times. In the end, it never got close. And by all appearances, that was about nothing but funding or, rather, the lack of it.
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