Air Canada is facing a flight attendants strike and is basically starting to shut down.
Friday, August 15, 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.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Roads to the Great War: Our Favorite World War One Aviation Novels
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear.
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear.:
Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear.
South African forces under Louis Botha defeated German colonial forces at the Battle of Otavi in German South West Africa with assistance from Canada, Great Britain, Portugal and Portuguese Angola.
The Battle of Gully Ravine started at Gallipoli. Two Victoria Cross awards would occur due to today's actions.
German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens became the first person to shoot down a plane using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear, starting the "Fokker Scourge".
Of the event, he wrote:
Dear Karl:
Unfortunately I gave you the wrong address last time, for during my voyage to Mühlhausen I got a different destination and for the time being I am with the Bavarian (unit) Abteilung 6b. Up to now nothing of real interest happened. In Mannheim I had tested the machine and then from Strasbourg by air to the Front, where lately a (Morane) Parasol fighter monoplane à la Garros had made its presence felt.
I had flown to the Front a couple of times without seeing an opponent, until yesterday evening when the big moment came. Time: 6:00 o'clock. Place: east of Lunéville. Altitude: between 2,000 and 2,500 m. Suddenly I notice a monoplane in front of me, about 300 m higher. And at the same moment he had already dived in front of me, fiercely firing his machine gun decently. But as I, at once, dived in an opposite direction under him, he missed wildly. After four attacks I reached his altitude in a large turn, and now my machine gun did some talking. I attacked at such a close distance that we looked each other into the face.
After my third attack he did the most stupid thing that he could do – he fled. I turned the crate on the spot and had him at once, beautifully, in my (gun)sight. Rapid fire for about four seconds, and down went his nose. I could follow him until 500 meters, then, unfortunately, I was fired upon from the ground too hotly; the fight (now) being far over the French lines. Hopefully, I'll soon meet a biplane.
Cordial greetings and so long,
Your friend,
— Kurt"
He'd be killed in action in September, 1916.
The US Navy started the Office of Naval Aeronautics.
The United States Forest Service combined the Jemez National Forest and Pecos National Forest in northern New Mexico to establish the Santa Fe National Forest, which luckily for us today was not hacked up to be sold by Sen. Mike Lee.
The Moapa National Forest was absorbed into the Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada, which fortunately Mike Lee has to keep his hands off of for the time being.
New York City established in the Child Welfare Board.
Blues great Willie Dixon was born.
Last edition:
Wednesday, June 30, 1915. Armenian massacre.
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, June 30, 1975. Changes in the Service.
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, June 30, 1975. Changes in the Service.:
Monday, June 30, 1975. Changes in the Service.
Women could no longer be involuntarily discharged from the United States Armed Forces as a result of pregnancy, by orders of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
30 June 1975: The last operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport in service with the United States Air Force, 43-49507, was retired and flown to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
This Day In Aviation.
Last edition:
June 28, 1975. Death of Rod Serling.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
WSGS Releases Public Information Circular on Airborne Geophysics in Wyoming
Wyoming State Geological Survey
June 26, 2025
******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******
Media Contact:
Bryce Tugwell, Media and
Communications Manager
bryce.tugwell@wyo.gov
Wyoming State Geological Survey
Office: (307) 745-2236
Cell: (307) 703-0761
WSGS Releases Public Information
Circular on Airborne Geophysics in Wyoming
LARAMIE, Wyo. — A new publication from the Wyoming State Geological Survey
(WSGS) discusses recent acquisition of airborne magnetic, radiometric, and
electromagnetic surveys in Wyoming. Geophysical surveys are key tools for
geological mapping, mineral exploration, evaluating geological hazards, and
better understanding the distribution of groundwater in the subsurface.
“I can’t emphasize enough the
importance of these baseline, high-quality, publicly available geophysical
data,” says WSGS Director and State Geologist Dr. Erin Campbell. “With the
completion of these surveys, approximately 20 percent of Wyoming will be covered
by Rank 1 data that will allow for interpretation of the framework geology,
furthering our understanding of the geologic structure and mineralogic
composition of Wyoming.”
The
majority of the recent geophysical surveys in Wyoming involve the simultaneous
collection of magnetic and radiometric data. These magnetic and radiometric
datasets are particularly useful for locating certain types of critical mineral
deposits. The airborne geophysical surveys discussed in this publication are
either completed, currently being flown, or will be flown in the near future.
“Collection
of these data has been a productive collaboration between the USGS and the
WSGS,” added Campbell. “Our geoscientists are working together to identify the
highest-priority areas in Wyoming in need of Rank 1 geophysical data. We are
pleased to see that the mineral industry is already using the datasets for
exploration.”
Airborne
geophysical surveys measure physical properties of the earth using instruments
mounted in aircraft that fly over a predetermined survey area. Airborne
magnetic surveys measure the total magnetic field intensity as the aircraft
flies in evenly spaced lines over the ground surface. These surveys can detect
magnetic signals emanating from deep within the earth’s crust. Magnetic surveys
can effectively map otherwise hidden geological variation, along with locating
deposits rich in magnetic minerals, commonly associated with critical mineral
deposits. Radiometric surveys measure gamma radiation released through the
radioactive decay of potassium, thorium, and uranium within the top few
centimeters of the ground surface. This type of survey can be used to constrain surficial geologic processes, along with
mapping exposures of certain types of mineral deposits.
Public Information Circular 49, Airborne Geophysics in Wyoming:
Methods for Exploring Subsurface Geology, provides an update on the
current status and geographic distribution of airborne geophysical surveys in
Wyoming. The circular also provides a broad overview of how these geophysical
data are collected, and what the various types of data represent. Lastly, the
publication discusses geophysical data from completed and published geophysical
surveys that cover the South Pass–Granite Mountains region and the Medicine Bow
Mountains.
This
circular is available for free download from the Wyoming State Geological
Survey website. The published geophysical data discussed in this publication
can be downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey’s website (South
Pass–Granite Mountains, Medicine
Bow Mountains).
Cover
of Airborne Geophysics in Wyoming: Methods for Exploring Subsurface Geology
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Aerodrome: Air Force One.
Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: The Aerodrome: Air Force One.:
Lex Anteinternet: The Aerodrome: Air Force One.
Lex Anteinternet: The Aerodrome: Air Force One.: The Aerodrome: Air Force One. : Air Force One. Air Force One has been in the news a lot recently, and it started before the Qatari proposa...
So the US has in fact accepted the Qatari 747.
Simply embarrassing.
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