Showing posts with label Evansville Wyoming Air Field. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evansville Wyoming Air Field. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, September 1, 1942. Casper Air Base gets the thumbs up.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, September 1, 1942. Miscarriages of Justice.: According to the Wyoming State Historical Association, on this day in 1942 official approval was given to commence use of the Casper Air Base, which had been constructed in an incredibly small amount of time. The existing county airport was Wardwell Field, the Casper area's second airport (the first was in what is now Evansville). Today, what was Casper Air Base is the Natrona County International Airport, which actually uses at least one fewer runway than was constructed by the Army in 1942. Wardwell Field's runways, in contrast, are city streets in the Town of Bar Nunn.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Some Gave All: Maud Toomey Memorial, Evansville Wyoming
Some Gave All: Maud Toomey Memorial, Evansville Wyoming:
Maude Toomey was a 33 year old high school Latin teacher, and an oil company bookkeeper, in Casper when she took a ride as a passenger in a plane owned and piloted by Casperite Bert Cole on January 14, 1920. Something went tragically wrong during the flight and Cole's plane crashed near what is now the Evansville water treatment plant, which is not far from what was Natrona County's first airport.
A cement cross was placed in the ground at the spot where the plant crashed. Oddly, no inscription was placed on it, leading to a small element of doubt about its purpose later on when it was rediscovered during the construction of the water treatment plant. Since that time, an inscription has been placed at its base and the location is now an Evansville park.
Evansville has sort of a unique history in that regard as two of its somber memorials are located in areas where children now play, which is perhaps a more appropriate placement than many might suppose, honoring the dead in a way that they might have appreciated.
These photographs were taken near the centennial of the accident, which contributed to very long shadows, even though they were taken near 1:00 p.m.
Maud Toomey Memorial, Evansville Wyoming
Maude Toomey was a 33 year old high school Latin teacher, and an oil company bookkeeper, in Casper when she took a ride as a passenger in a plane owned and piloted by Casperite Bert Cole on January 14, 1920. Something went tragically wrong during the flight and Cole's plane crashed near what is now the Evansville water treatment plant, which is not far from what was Natrona County's first airport.
A cement cross was placed in the ground at the spot where the plant crashed. Oddly, no inscription was placed on it, leading to a small element of doubt about its purpose later on when it was rediscovered during the construction of the water treatment plant. Since that time, an inscription has been placed at its base and the location is now an Evansville park.
Evansville has sort of a unique history in that regard as two of its somber memorials are located in areas where children now play, which is perhaps a more appropriate placement than many might suppose, honoring the dead in a way that they might have appreciated.
These photographs were taken near the centennial of the accident, which contributed to very long shadows, even though they were taken near 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Lex Anteinternet: January 14, 1920. Untimely passings.
Lex Anteinternet: January 14, 1920. Untimely passings.:
January 14, 1920. Untimely passings.
January 14
1920 The first fatal air accident to occur near Casper occurred, taking the life of pilot Bert Cole and passenger Maud Toomey. Ms. Toomey is also the first female air fatality in Wyoming. The very early airport in use at this time was located where the town of Evansville now sits, and a memorial to Ms. Toomey, who was a schoolteacher, is located in Evansville. Attribution. Wyoming State Historical Society.
On this day, Natrona County suffered its first air fatality.
The location of this tragic accident is in Evansville, Wyoming, where the county's first air field was located. There's a cross marking the location somewhere in Evansville, but I've never been able to find it.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Lex Anteinternet: October 17, 1919 Airborne visitors to Casper and ...
Lex Anteinternet: October 17, 1919 Airborne visitors to Casper and ...: .
Mishaps continued to take a toll on aviators and their planes participating in the 1919 Air Derby. Included in the mishaps were a directional one, that took an airplane all the way to Casper.
At the time, Casper's air strip was near Evansville. Portions of it can still be seen there, but you have to know what you are looking at in order to appreciate what it was.
With the ongoing toll on American military aircraft its quite frankly surprising that the race continued, but perhaps at this point it would have been embarrassing to stop it.
One of the features of the aircraft in question is their short engine life. No doubt more than one engine was replaced on more than one craft during the race.
In other news, it looked at the time as if the Reds were about to fall in Russia.
In the U.S., some worried about homegrown Reds.
October 17, 1919 Airborne visitors to Casper and more crashes.
Mishaps continued to take a toll on aviators and their planes participating in the 1919 Air Derby. Included in the mishaps were a directional one, that took an airplane all the way to Casper.
At the time, Casper's air strip was near Evansville. Portions of it can still be seen there, but you have to know what you are looking at in order to appreciate what it was.
With the ongoing toll on American military aircraft its quite frankly surprising that the race continued, but perhaps at this point it would have been embarrassing to stop it.
One of the features of the aircraft in question is their short engine life. No doubt more than one engine was replaced on more than one craft during the race.
In other news, it looked at the time as if the Reds were about to fall in Russia.
In the U.S., some worried about homegrown Reds.
New York Herald Cartoon, "To Make America Safe For Democracy", October 17, 1919
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