But for all his success, the 55-year-old executive is resented, even reviled, by some leading voices among the very audience he built his fortune catering to--black America.

FORBES: The cable capitalist

When I asked when, all the fortune teller could say was that the black swan is aloft and already is stalking the Bernanke put.

FORBES: Black Swan Stalking Bernanke Put

Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.

ENGADGET: China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin

While the Black Knight and Blue Streak rockets can be seen at the Scottish National Aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian.

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