Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 30, 1946. Expanding air travel.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapol...: The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941.  George Robson, took the race. Robson was killed in a racing accident that Septe...

Posted here not for the headlines, but for the ad noting the expansion of post war air service.

Thursday, May 30, 1946. First post war Indianapolis 500.

The Indianapolis 500 was run for the first time since 1941.  George Robson, took the race.

Robson was killed in a racing accident that September.

Over 90 passengers were killed in a railway accident at Hengyang, China.

The day prior the Senate had defeated a really badly thought out plan by Truman to draft striking rail workers.

Air travel was expanding.

Last edition:

Saturday, May 25, 1946. Jordanian independence, Railroad strike ends.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Harry S. Truman, Jordan, Labor unrest, Monarchy, Railroads, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, Unions

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, W...: The House of Commons voted to nationalize the British coal industry.  The House of Lords would follow and Royal Assent would be received on ...

Monday, May 20, 1946. Air disaster in Manhattan, War in Iran, Nationalization of Coal in the UK.

The House of Commons voted to nationalize the British coal industry.  The House of Lords would follow and Royal Assent would be received on July l2.

C-45.  By LanceBarber at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12001474

A C-45 crashed into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan building killing all five passengers but nobody else, given that it occurred at 8:00 p.m.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.: President Coolidge signed the Air Commerce Act providing for the licensing of pilots and commercial aircraft.  He also signed the Railway La...

Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.

President Coolidge signed the Air Commerce Act providing for the licensing of pilots and commercial aircraft.  He also signed the Railway Labor act abolishing the Railroad Labor Board.

The Air Commerce Act provided for an  Aeronautics Branch within the U.S. Department of Commerce to implement and enforce regulations and is depicted as a story element in the film The Great Waldo Pepper.  The film accurately portrays the role of the Aeronautics Branch in brining barnstorming to an end.

1930 photograph by Ernst Udet, German fighter pilot in World War One and Luftwaffe officer during World War Two, upon whom the movie character Ernst Kessler is based in the movie The Great Waldo Pepper.  Udet was a barnstormer in the 1920s.

Last edition:

Wednesday, May 19, 1926. Bad coinage idea.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Calvin Coolidge, China, Currency, French Air Force, George Washington, Great Syrian Revolt, Kuomintang, Syria, Syria (Damascus)

Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against Denver For Failing To Stop Runway Suicide

Frontier Passengers File $10 Million Claim Against Denver For Failing To Stop Runway Suicide

Seriously?

That should be tossed out and sanctions levied against the lawyer who filed it.

 This is such an odd story that its clear there's more to it.  Why was a person on the runway?

Frontier Airlines jet on takeoff hits, kills person on Denver International Airport runway

 

AI in the sky: Inside the FAA plan to overhaul air traffic

 

U.F.O. Files Released by U.S. Shed Light on What the Government Knows

M'eh. 

I continue to be massively underwhelmed.

And at this point it's hard not to view any Trump administration release of anything as more than a mere distraction.  War going badly, fuel prices through the roof, airlines dying, and then there's those Epstein files. At this point it wouldn't surprise me if Trump pushed Melania off the White House roof it it distracted for a few days.

Who REALLY Killed Spirit Airlines?

 

Discount airline Spirit dissolves.

 It was a victim of high aviation fuel, something brought about by Donald Trump's illegal attack on Iran.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, April 30, 1926. Bessie Coleman killed.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, April 30, 1926. Bessie Coleman killed.: Famous African American aviator Bessie Coleman was killed along with passenger, her mechanic and promoter, William D. Willis when her Curtis...

Friday, April 30, 1926. Bessie Coleman killed.

Famous African American aviator Bessie Coleman was killed along with passenger, her mechanic and promoter, William D. Willis when her Curtiss JN-4 crashed. A post accident investigation found a wrench jammed in the controls which jammed them.

The airplane was newly purchased and in poor mechanical condition.  Her friends had urged her not to fly due to the condition.

Wednesday, April 24 1946. Firsts.

The Blue Angels, flying F6F Hellcats, were formed.

The first Blue Angels.

The MiG-9 and the Yak-15 flew for the first time.