Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2026
Roads to the Great War: Dominators of the Air: the Royal Aircraft Factory ...
Roads to the Great War: Dominators of the Air: the Royal Aircraft Factory ...: In the history of aviation, our sources are already almost exclusively held statically in books. They are plentiful, but we can no longer as...
Saturday, October 24, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of the Earth from space.
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of t...: The first photographs of the Earth from space were taken by a US V-2 rocket fitted with a movie camera. The News covered the prior days sp...
Thursday. October 24, 1946. First photographs of the Earth from space.
The first photographs of the Earth from space were taken by a US V-2 rocket fitted with a movie camera.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.: The Rocky Mountain News reported on a terrible aviation accident in Laramie which occurred the day prior. Pilot error was ultimately determi...
Friday, October 18, 1946. Disaster in Laramie.
The Rocky Mountain News reported on a terrible aviation accident in Laramie which occurred the day prior.
Pilot error was ultimately determined to be the cause of the accident. The plane had diverted to Laramie from Cheyenne because of the weather, and the weather rapidly deteriorated as he was attempting to land. He maneuvered the aircraft low to the ground, causing the wing to strike the ground and the plane to crash.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, September 23, 1976. Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, September 23, 1976. The Ford Carter Deb...: The first U.S. presidential debate since 1960 took place between President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. A power outage happened mid deba...
Thursday, September 23, 1976. The Ford Carter Debate goes silent.
The first U.S. presidential debate since 1960 took place between President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter.
A power outage happened mid debate.
Baa Baa Black Sheep (Black Sheep Squadron) debuted on NBC. The Tony Randall Show debuted on CBS.
Last edition:
Tuesday, September 21, 1976. The assassination of Orlando Letelier.
Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.
Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.: Ulster lawyer Edward Carson led a march of 50,000 Unionists from Belfast to Craigavon, the home of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. He t...
Saturday, September 23, 1911. First air mail in US.
Ulster lawyer Edward Carson led a march of 50,000 Unionists from Belfast to Craigavon, the home of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.
He there delivered an address which included; "We must be prepared.. the morning Home Rule passes, ourselves to become responsible for the government of the Protestant Province of Ulster."
Pilot Earle Lewis Ovington in a Bleriot XI airplane, Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock and Edward M. Morgan, postmaster of New York, September 23, 1911.
Earle Ovington made the first official airmail flight in the United States flying a Blériot XI from Nassau Boulevard aerodrome, Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York.
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, August 1, 1946. Scandinavian Airlines founded.
Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, August 1, 1946. Battle of Athens.: By Brian Stansberry (photographer) - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3739488 A large-scale citizen upri...
Thursday, August 1, 1946. Battle of Athens.
Scandinavian Airlines was founded as a consortium of the flag carriers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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Wednesday, July 31, 1946. Cracking Venona.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Clement Attlee, Diplomacy, Espionage, Harry S. Truman, Palestine, Personalities, USSR, Venona Files
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female American pilot.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female ...: Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, although that meant something significantly diffe...
She was killed in an airplane accident the following year at age 37.
Tuesday, August 1, 1911. First "licensed" female American pilot.
Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to receive an airplane pilot's license, although that meant something significantly different at the time as the government did not issue them and you did not require one to fly an airplane.
She was killed in an airplane accident the following year at age 37.
Last edition:
Monday, July 31, 1911. End if the Porfirian legislature and of Standard Oil. Complaining Russians and Germans. First Black Boy Scouts.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, 1911, Automobiles, Boy Scouts, Distributism, Ethnicities, Germany, Industry, Iran, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Ohio (Akron), panoramic, Persia, Petroleum, Russia, United Kingdom
Saturday, May 30, 2026
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.
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
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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.
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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)
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
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
Friday, March 20, 2026
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
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Saturday, March 16, 1946. Route 66. George Mikan turns pro.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
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.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Saturday, January 31, 2026
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.
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Tuesday, January 22, 1946. Central Intelligence Group formed.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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
Sunday, January 18, 2026
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.
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:
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