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: 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)

 

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

War Games On Wyoming Highway Helped Prepare For Daring Iran U.S. Pilot Rescue

 

War Games On Wyoming Highway Helped Prepare For Daring Iran U.S. Pilot Rescue

 

Seat 11A: The Windowless Inside Joke at 30,000 Feet

What looks like a prime spot on the seat maps is prompting disappointment and humor for passengers who find only a blank wall.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, March 21, 1946. The Strategic and Tactical Air Commands created.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, March 21, 1946. The Strategic and Tacti...: The Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command were created. Shoulder patch of the United States Army Air Forces Strategic Air Comma...

Thursday, March 21, 1946. The Strategic and Tactical Air Commands created.

The Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command were created.

Shoulder patch of the United States Army Air Forces Strategic Air Command.

SAC therefore predates the Air Force as an independent branch of the military.

And so does TAC, which has been inactive since 1992, when it was merged into SAC.

I've been meaning to do a post on reorganization of the U.S. military, which the illegal war on Venezuela and King Donny's War shows to be a desperate need, but I haven't gotten around to it..

Last edition:

Wednesday, March 20, 1946. Tule Lake closes but its residents struggles continue.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1960, 1960s, Aircraft, Disaster, Ethnicities, Internment of Japanese, law, Racism, U.S. Air Force

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 20, 1946. Crashes.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 20, 1946. Tule Lake closes but i...: The final adjudication of the cases of Japanese internees who had renounced their citizenship during World War Two concluded, resulting in t...

Wednesday, March 20, 1946. Tule Lake closes but its residents struggles continue.

The final adjudication of the cases of Japanese internees who had renounced their citizenship during World War Two concluded, resulting in the closure of Tule Lake War Relocation Center.  The litigation reversed their loss of citizenship, but the Justice Department would reverse that.  It would take until the 1960s for their citizenship to be restored.

Almost all of those who had renounced their citizenship had recanted, and for that matter not all of the renunciations were genuine.

There were two air disasters in the news:

26 DIE IN C-47 CRASH; AB-29 FALLS WITH 7; Army Plane Explodes in Sierras, Lost 'Superfort' Is Found South of San Francisco

Last edition:

Saturday, March 16, 1946. Route 66. George Mikan turns pro.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1940s, 1946, 1960s, 1970s, basketball, Cartoons, Highways, J.R. Williams, Music, Personalities, Post War United States (and Canada), Swing Music, television, Transportation

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, March 8, 1946. Helicopters approved for civil use.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, March 8, 1946. Helicopters approved for c...: The Civil Aeronautics Bard granted a certificate to Bell Helicopter for the Bell 47 to be sold to civilians. If you've seen M*A*S*H you...

Friday, March 8, 1946. Helicopters approved for civil use.

The Civil Aeronautics Bard granted a certificate to Bell Helicopter for the Bell 47 to be sold to civilians.

If you've seen M*A*S*H you've seen the Bell 47.

Last edition:

Tuesday, January 22, 1946. Central Intelligence Group formed.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1947, actors and actresses, Central Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Group, Iran, Kurds, Office of Strategic Services, Post War United States (and Canada), USSR, Women

Blog Mirror: Without explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites national defense

 Oh great, now what?

Without explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days, cites national defense

 

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, January 31, 1946. United Flight 14 crashed into Elk Mountain.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, January 31, 1946. United Flight 14 cras...: United Airlines Flight 14, flying from Boise to Denver, crashed into Elk Mountain, Wyoming, killing all 21 persons on board. The plane is ap...

Thursday, January 31, 1946. United Flight 14 crashed into Elk Mountain.

United Airlines Flight 14, flying from Boise to Denver, crashed into Elk Mountain, Wyoming, killing all 21 persons on board.

The plane is apparently the last one to have crashed into Elk Mountain, and was also apparently the fifth to do so.

The distant Elk Mountain from Shirley Basin.

Last edition:

Tuesday, January 22, 1946. Central Intelligence Group formed.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1947, actors and actresses, Central Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Group, Iran, Kurds, Office of Strategic Services, Post War United States (and Canada), USSR, Women

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 21, 1976. Supersonic.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 21, 1976. Supersonic.: The first commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place with one departing Heathrow in British Airways colors and another...

Wednesday, January 21, 1976. Supersonic.

The first commercial flight of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place with one departing Heathrow in British Airways colors and another departing Orly Airport in Paris in Air France colors.   The British jet flew to Bahrain and the French one to Brazil.

The plane remained in service until 2003.

On the same day communist forces in Angola established the People's Air Force of Angola.

Last edition:

Monday, January 19, 1976: The Iowa Caucuses

Labels: 1970s, 1976, 1976 General Election, Blog Mirror, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Uncle Mike

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, January 18, 1916. First all metal aircraft.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, January 18, 1916. First all metal aircraft.: The Junkers J 1 made its first flight.  The aircraft was an experimental craft that was the first practical all metal aircraft.  Only one wa...

Tuesday, January 18, 1916. First all metal aircraft.

The Junkers J 1 made its first flight.  The aircraft was an experimental craft that was the first practical all metal aircraft.  Only one was built.

Last edition:

Monday, January 17, 1916. Female marksman.

Labels: 1910s, 1917, Railroads, Shooting Sports, Teenagers, Women

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 18, 1911. First landing on a ship

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 18, 1911. First landing on a s...: Eugene Burton Ely landed a Curtiss biplane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania. It was the first such landing in history. Last edition: Satu...

Wednesday, January 18, 1911. First landing on a ship.

Eugene Burton Ely landed a Curtiss biplane on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania.

It was the first such landing in history.

Last edition:

Saturday, January 14, 1911. Bay of Whales.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Antarctic, Art, boats and ships, Clothing, Exploration, Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, Roald Amundsen

Lex Anteinternet: Friday January 14, 1916. The Royal Flying Corps requires escorts.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday January 14, 1916. Collins resigns British ...: Michael Collins resigned from his employment in London at the Guaranty Trust Company n order to return to Ireland.  He was already a clandes...

Friday January 14, 1916. Collins resigns British employment.

Michael Collins resigned from his employment in London at the Guaranty Trust Company n order to return to Ireland.  He was already a clandestine Irish revolutionary.

Severe flooding caused dikes to burst at Zuiderzee, Netherlands.

The Royal Flying Corps ordered that reconnaissance planes have an escort of at least three fighters flying in close formation with them, and that a reconnaissance aircraft must abort its flight if even one of the three fighters becomes detached from the formation for any reason, due to highly losses from Fokker Eindeckers.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 6, 1926. Deutsche Luft Hansa

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, January 6, 1926. Deutsche Luft Hansa: Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH), the predecessor of Lufthansa, was formed. It ceased operations in April, 1945, but it's personnel later refor...

Wednesday, January 6, 1926. Deutsche Luft Hansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH), the predecessor of Lufthansa, was formed.

It ceased operations in April, 1945, but it's personnel later reformed the company as Lufthansa in 1955.

Last edition:

Sunday, January 3, 1926.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Cartoons, Ethel Hays

Gillette’s Airport's Success Prompts United To Drop Air Guarantee Subsidy

 

Gillette’s Airport's Success Prompts United To Drop Air Guarantee Subsidy

Mystery Drones, Or Maybe UFOs, Over Sweetwater County Are 'The New Normal'

 

Mystery Drones, Or Maybe UFOs, Over Sweetwater County Are 'The New Normal'

Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights

Headline in the CST:

Casper airport sees 10-year high for November flights

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

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.