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.

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.

Blog Mirror: The Rawlins Pilot Who Flew A Future President And 40,000 Accident-Free Hours

 

The Rawlins Pilot Who Flew A Future President And 40,000 Accident-Free Hours

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.: 

Friday, October 15, 1915. The Wright Company sold.

Orville Wright in 1928.

Orville Wright sold the Wright Company and basically went into retirement at an early age.

The Wright siblings are interesting.  Neither aircraft brother married.  Wilbur was already dead by this time, but Orville would lead a long life.  At this point in time he was still living with his father and sister Katherine.  His father, Milton, was a clergyman and would die in 1917.  Another brother, Reuchlin Wright, was also living at this time, but was married and somewhat estranged from the family.  Yet another brother, Lorin, was also living and was also married. His sister Katherine continued to live with Orville following their father's death, but married in 1926 at which time she was 40 years old.  Orville regarded her marriage as a horrible act of betrayal, and did not speak to her again until he was near death in 1948 at age 76.

Orville Wright, Bishop Milton Wright, Katharine Wright, Earl N. Findley, nephew Horace Wright, John R. McMahon, and Pliny Williamson, all seated on the lawn of Orville's home, Hawthorn Hill; Dayton, Ohio.

Two siblings, twins, had died in their childhood.

The dynamics of the family are unusual. They were all well educated, and obviously highly intelligent.  For some reason the three younger Wrights had a very close bond with their father and were seemingly dedicated to him, and each other, relatively uniquely.  Remaining unmarried for life, as Orville did, was quite unusual at the time, and there's every indication that Wilbur, Orville and Katherine up until her marriage, were celibate and chaste.  There's no indication at all of same sex attraction, as such conditions always are speculated upon in our current day and age.  Orville commented at one point that he didn't have time for a wife and an airplane, which perhaps was correct, but most men do find time for a wife.  

Posthumous modern psychoanalysis has pondered if the two younger Wrights had Asperger's Syndrome, which if possible is impossible to know.  It could be that they fit into that rare category of humans who are simply not very interested in sex or family life, something current people have a very hard time grasping.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.:   

Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.

 

This Day in History: Teddy Roosevelt, first President to fly

Blog Mirror: Congress just created a new reason to worry about air travel Yet another concern for air safety: the understaffed employees who will work without pay.

 

Congress just created a new reason to worry about air travel

Yet another concern for air safety: the understaffed employees who will work without pay.

Pilot Hurt When Acrobatic Plane Crashes During Emergency Landing Near Torrington

 

Pilot Hurt When Acrobatic Plane Crashes During Emergency Landing Near Torrington

Lex Anteinternet: So Trump is demanding all files on Amelia Earhart ...

Lex Anteinternet: So Trump is demanding all files on Amelia Earhart ...: 

So Trump is demanding all files on Amelia Earhart be released, but not the Epstein files?

That's um, odd.

Big Horn County Is Selling 16 Vintage Aircraft In Online Auction, And Bids Start At $25

 

Big Horn County Is Selling 16 Vintage Aircraft In Online Auction, And Bids Start At $25

The auction webiste: https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/bighornco,wy/list/current?orgid=948930

Missing Wyoming WWII Vet’s B-17 Bomber Discovered In New Guinea Jungle

 

Missing Wyoming WWII Vet’s B-17 Bomber Discovered In New Guinea Jungle

Above the plains, under the clouds

Above the plains, under the clouds: A reporter and his pilot friend flew over southeastern Wyoming, above landmarks and empty quarters.

13-Year-Old Girl Dead, Three Hurt In Bighorn National Forest Plane Crash

 

13-Year-Old Girl Dead, Three Hurt In Bighorn National Forest Plane Crash

Missile-equipped farm plane spotted in Ukraine

 Missile-equipped farm plane spotted in Ukraine