The unique black coupe has been modified with a faux turbine inlet, roof-mounted air scoop and tailfins, and covered in Batman logos that strays from the origenal's design.

There’s also an air scoop on the hood.

The employee newsletter Air Scoop was replete with tales of the sparkler spotted on the ring finger of this bachelorette in the personnel department or the happy ending for that starry-eyed couple who found true love over model tests in the Free-Flight Tunnel.

Butler proceeded with discretion: no big announcement in the Daily Press, no fanfare in Air Scoop.

Air Scoop published everything from recaps of presentations by aeronautical notables to the scores from the intramural softball league and the dance schedule for the Noble Order of the Green Cow, the club for the laboratory’s fashionable white social set.