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.

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.