Roads to the Great War: Dominators of the Air: the Royal Aircraft Factory ...

Roads to the Great War: Dominators of the Air: the Royal Aircraft Factory ...: In the history of aviation, our sources are already almost exclusively held statically in books. They are plentiful, but we can no longer as...

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of the Earth from space.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of t...:   The first photographs of the Earth from space were taken by a US V-2 rocket fitted with a movie camera. The News covered the prior days sp...

Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of the Earth from space.

 

The first photographs of the Earth from space were taken by a US V-2 rocket fitted with a movie camera.

New Casper-Natrona County International Airport tower among Wyoming projects to receive USDA funding

 

New Casper-Natrona County International Airport tower among Wyoming projects to receive USDA funding

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.: The Rocky Mountain News reported on a terrible aviation accident in Laramie which occurred the day prior. Pilot error was ultimately determi...

Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.

The Rocky Mountain News reported on a terrible aviation accident in Laramie which occurred the day prior.

Pilot error was ultimately determined to be the cause of the accident.  The plane had diverted to Laramie from Cheyenne because of the weather, and the weather rapidly deteriorated as he was attempting to land.  He maneuvered the aircraft low to the ground, causing the wing to strike the ground and the plane to crash.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, September 23, 1976. Baa Baa Black Sheep.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, September 23, 1976. The Ford Carter Deb...: The first U.S. presidential debate since 1960 took place between President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. A power outage happened mid deba...

Thursday, September 23, 1976. The Ford Carter Debate goes silent.

The first U.S. presidential debate since 1960 took place between President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.

A power outage happened mid debate.

Baa Baa Black Sheep (Black Sheep Squadron) debuted on NBC.  The Tony Randall Show debuted on CBS.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 21, 1976. The assassination of Orlando Letelier.

Labels: 1970s, 1973 Chilean Coup, 1976, Augusto Pinochet, Chile, Crime, Terrorism, Washington DC

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.: Ulster lawyer Edward Carson led a march of 50,000 Unionists from Belfast to Craigavon, the home of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. He t...

Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.

Ulster lawyer Edward Carson led a march of 50,000 Unionists from Belfast to Craigavon, the home of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.

He there delivered an address which included; "We must be prepared.. the morning Home Rule passes, ourselves to become responsible for the government of the Protestant Province of Ulster."

Pilot Earle Lewis Ovington in a Bleriot XI airplane, Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock and Edward M. Morgan, postmaster of New York, September 23, 1911.

Earle Ovington made the first official airmail flight in the United States flying a Blériot XI from Nassau Boulevard aerodrome, Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York.

Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 157th Edition. Helipad.

Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 157th Edition. Press ...: Press Revolt. Today’s action revoking access for journalists from CNN, POLITICO, and MSNOW violates the First Amendment. The implications ex...

Huge

The video footage of the helipad unveiling reveals it to be huge.

I didn't really have an appreciation of its size  until I saw the video.

I really don't know what to make of the helipad.  In some ways it makes sense and it was well done.  I also think that the President doesn't need a giant Sikorsky helicopter and that all the prior Marine Corps 1 helicopters were gigantically overblown as well.  One of the smaller business helicopters would be plenty large enough, quite frankly.

They wouldn't have all the countermeasures, I know. Well, too freaking bad.  The President is supposed to be the chief executive of limited powers, not an emperor.  Flying around in an armored helicopter just gives that much more of a delusion of the opposite.

New White House helipad.

 

At least to some degree, of all the vandalization that Trump has done to the White House, perhaps this is not completely offensive.

Reportedly this was put in because the new Sikorsky VH-92A used as Marine Corps 1 was scorching the lawn, which raises the question of why the President requires such a heavy duty helicopter, or a helicopter at all.  The Canadian and British prime ministers do not have dedicated helicopters.

 

World War II-Era Wyoming Wildcatter To Fly Again In National Air Championship

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, September 1, 1946. PT-26s for sale.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, September 1, 1946. Greek and Cambodian el...: The left wing Democratic Party won a majority in Cambodia's first election. The Greek population voted to retain the Greek monarchy.  Th...

And the War Assets Administration was advertising aircraft for sale.

Hawaiian sugar workers went on strike.

Last edition:

Saturday, August 31, 1946. "Hiroshima".

Labels: 1940s, 1946, French League of Nation Mandates, It was because of World War Two, Japan (Hiroshima), Lebanon, The written word, War Crimes, World War Two

Some Army pilots cut from flying can transfer to the Navy. But not all. Around 75 Army pilots could see a new future flying for the Navy.

 

Some Army pilots cut from flying can transfer to the Navy. But not all.

Around 75 Army pilots could see a new future flying for the Navy.