Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights
Headline in the CST:
Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...: The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from ...
Oddly enough, showing the dangers of an earlier age, his mother had been killed when he was a child by a runaway horse.
Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial aviation.
The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, for delivery to the Morehouse-Martens Department Store in Columbus.
Predictably, Parmalee died two years later in an airplane crash.
Philip Parmalee
The HMCS Rainbow arrived at Esquimault, British Columbia, to begin her service patrolling the Pacific coast. She was the Royal Canadian Navy's second ship.
What’s next from the Wyoming Freedom Caucus? Tinfoil Stetsons?
What’s next from the Wyoming Freedom Caucus? Tinfoil Stetsons?: By backing anti-chemtrail legislation, the Freedom Caucus is making a hard run for an Oscar nomination in the theater of the absurd, writes columnist Rod Miller.
Monday, November 3, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 3, 1915. First aircraft with a wheeled carriage to take off from a ship.
Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ord...: President Wilson was considering sending troops into Mexico. The Austro Hungarians defeated the Italians at the Isonzo River. The first airc...
The Austro Hungarians defeated the Italians at the Isonzo River.
Wednesday, November 3, 1915. Wilson considers ordering troops into Mexico.
The Austro Hungarians defeated the Italians at the Isonzo River.
The first aircraft with a wheeled undercarriage to take off from a ship did so when Royal Naval Air Service Flight Sub-Lieutenant Fowler flew a Bristol Scout from HMS Vindex.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.:
Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.
Orville Wright in 1928.
Orville Wright sold the Wright Company and basically went into retirement at an early age.
The Wright siblings are interesting. Neither aircraft brother married. Wilbur was already dead by this time, but Orville would lead a long life. At this point in time he was still living with his father and sister Katherine. His father, Milton, was a clergyman and would die in 1917. Another brother, Reuchlin Wright, was also living at this time, but was married and somewhat estranged from the family. Yet another brother, Lorin, was also living and was also married. His sister Katherine continued to live with Orville following their father's death, but married in 1926 at which time she was 40 years old. Orville regarded her marriage as a horrible act of betrayal, and did not speak to her again until he was near death in 1948 at age 76.
Orville Wright, Bishop Milton Wright, Katharine Wright, Earl N. Findley, nephew Horace Wright, John R. McMahon, and Pliny Williamson, all seated on the lawn of Orville's home, Hawthorn Hill; Dayton, Ohio.
Two siblings, twins, had died in their childhood.
The dynamics of the family are unusual. They were all well educated, and obviously highly intelligent. For some reason the three younger Wrights had a very close bond with their father and were seemingly dedicated to him, and each other, relatively uniquely. Remaining unmarried for life, as Orville did, was quite unusual at the time, and there's every indication that Wilbur, Orville and Katherine up until her marriage, were celibate and chaste. There's no indication at all of same sex attraction, as such conditions always are speculated upon in our current day and age. Orville commented at one point that he didn't have time for a wife and an airplane, which perhaps was correct, but most men do find time for a wife.
Posthumous modern psychoanalysis has pondered if the two younger Wrights had Asperger's Syndrome, which if possible is impossible to know. It could be that they fit into that rare category of humans who are simply not very interested in sex or family life, something current people have a very hard time grasping.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.:
Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Blog Mirror: Congress just created a new reason to worry about air travel Yet another concern for air safety: the understaffed employees who will work without pay.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Above the plains, under the clouds
Above the plains, under the clouds: A reporter and his pilot friend flew over southeastern Wyoming, above landmarks and empty quarters.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 5, 1945. Enola Gay and Necessary Evil
Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 5, 1945. Enola Gay and Necessary E...:
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Sunday, August 5, 1945. Enola Gay and Necessary Evil.
The 20th Air Force dropped 720,000 leaflets over twelve Japanese cities. Conventional bombing raids continued.
Gen. LeMay officially confirmed the atomic mission for the next day.
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Paul Tibbets named the lead plane in the Hiroshima bombing mission the Enola Gay, after his mother. This was done over the objection of the planes normal designated pilot, Robert Lewis, who wanted to name the plane "The Pearl Harbor," "The Avenger," or "The USS Indianapolis". Lewis also wasn't happy about being moved to the co-pilot's seat for the mission.
Lewis would return to civilian life after the war, and died in 1983 at age 65.
The B-29 that would take photos on the mission would be named Necessary Evil. It featured, as many plans did, a buxom woman, albeit one clothed in a bikini, as nose art.
The Chinese 13th Army captured the town of Tanchuk. The Chinese 58th Division took Hsinning (Changchun).
Paul Ferdonet, the "Radio Traitor" of Stuttgart, was executed in France.
His pro Nazi broadcast had actually dwindled after 1942.
Oddly enough, today would have been Loni Anderson' birthday. She passed away yesterday.
Last edition:
Saturday, August 4, 1945. Tibbets briefs his crew.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 1, 1915. Max Immelmann shot down h...
Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, August 1, 1915. Max Immelmann shot down h...:
Sunday, August 1, 1915. Max Immelmann shot down his first aircraft.
Max Immelmann shot down his first aircraft.
Like most of the famous aces, he didn't survive the war.
Irish nationalist Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Patrick Pearse delivered a graveside speech including the phrase "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace".
The Endurance broke up.
Last edition:
Saturday, July 31, 1915. The Russians.
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