Lex Anteinternet: The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You

Lex Anteinternet: The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You: The Secretary of Transportation has taken a lot of flak for this, and I'm not fan of the Trump Administration, but you know, I don't...

 

The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You

The Secretary of Transportation has taken a lot of flak for this, and I'm not fan of the Trump Administration, but you know, I don't think the message here is wrong by any means.

And, fwiw, I hate seeing people in pajamas in public, whether its on an airplane, or Walmart.

Wyoming Hunter Finds Aircraft Parts That Blew Off Cessna Jet In 2019

 

Wyoming Hunter Finds Aircraft Parts That Blew Off Cessna Jet In 2019

11 Vintage Planes Bought In Big Horn County To Become Art, Scrap Or Land In Museums

 

11 Vintage Planes Bought In Big Horn County To Become Art, Scrap Or Land In Museums

Cessna T310R near Kaycee, Wyoming.

 

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.: 

Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.

Eugene B. Ely took off in an airplane from the USS Birmingham in the first shipboard takeoff.

He landed in Hampton Roads.

He'd follow that up by being the first person to land an airplane on a ship on January 18, 1911.

Not too surprisingly, he died in an aviation accident on October 19, 1911. He received a posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross on February 16, 1933.

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 ...

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

Oddly enough, showing the dangers of an earlier age, his mother had been killed when he was a child by a runaway horse.

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.

Tom Lubnau: Wyoming Lawmakers Are Here To Vanquish The Contrails

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.

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...

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.