Lex Anteinternet: November 25, 1920. Thanksgiving Day

Lex Anteinternet: November 25, 1920. Thanksgiving Day: The day wasn't limited to team sports.  On the same day the Pulitzer Prize Trophy Race was held, which is mentioned in the newspaper above, and which you can read about on this blog here:

This Day In Aviation:  25 November 1920

Aviation was a new thing as well, as we have been tracking, and things associated were still so novel as to make the front page in newspapers.

Lex Anteinternet: Dueling Agendas

Lex Anteinternet: Dueling Agendas: 

Dueling Agendas

November 23, 2020

The United States has withdrawn from the Open Skies Treaty.  The 2002 treaty allows for unmanned areal flights over member nations territories, a concept first proposed by Dwight Eisenhower in 1955.  The treaty allows such flights under controlled conditions.  Interestingly member nations avail themselves of them much less than might be supposed, and each flight is extremely expensive.  Both the US and the USSR have accused each other of cheating on the treaty.

As a practical matter, the treaty matters less and less every year as intelligence satellites get better and better.  Indeed, it's notable that it was drafted in 2002 at which point intelligence satellites were already excellent.  Therefore the treaty is really of more value to the less advanced nations that are part of it.

Lex Anteinternet: November 16, 1920. Qantas formed.

Lex Anteinternet: November 16, 1920. Timely advice, then and now. ...: 

November 16, 1920. Timely advice, then and now. Airlines, then and now. Beersheba.

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The Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service, Qantas, was formed on this day in 1920.  The third oldest airway in the world, its now the Australian national airline.

Qantas' first office.