Archive for October, 2007
Picture Of The Day – Wednesday
October 24, 2007 6:35 am
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Picture Of The Day – Tuesday
October 23, 2007 6:13 am
Boom And Zoom
October 22, 2007 12:36 pm
Picture Of The Day – Monday
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Picture Of The Day – Sunday
October 21, 2007 6:13 am
Picture Of The Day – Saturday
October 20, 2007 6:13 am
Picture Of The Day – Friday
October 19, 2007 6:38 am
Fokker DR. 1 replica at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York
Flight Journal Podcast/Radio Show
This is the first aviation podcast that I have found that I truly enjoyed listening too. Budd Davisson does a great job making it feel like you are just hanging out at the hanger and listening to stories.The podcasts are very informative and entertaining and give an insight into flying that is not commonly available. Currently there are 9 episodes:
Episode 9 – Sherpa
Episode 8 – P-51 Mustang
Episode 7 – Spitfire
Episode 6 – B-25
Episode 5 – Blue Angel A-4
Episode 4 – Landing a Piper Cub on a Moving Truck
Episode 3 – Flying the Curtiss Jenny
Episode 2 – The P-38
Episode 1 – Budd’s First Flight in a Bearcat.
I highly recommend this podcast to anyone looking for more in depth knowledge of flying.
This Week In Military/Aviation History: 15 – 21 October
October 18, 2007 8:42 amHello Folks, I’m here again so that must mean another seven days have gone down the tubes. Just think of it as seven days closer to retirement and all the things you never had time for. Yeah Right! Guess what, ain’t gonna happen. I’m going into my sixth year of retirement, No, I am not that old, I got a head start at 55, and I’ve got more stuff to do than when I was working. I seem to have gotten more done and found more time to do it in when my time was limited as opposed to the time I have now, especially with winter just around the corner. Seems after I do my “work” on the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum’s Message Board (Stop by and see us at www.1941hag.org sometime) and this little post here, the days are pretty much shot. Of course there are those pesky interruptions like meals, baths, shopping for groceries and other good stuff (My Toys), spending time with my better half (she gets cranky if I don’t), sleep, etc. etc. Of course, the upside is I get to spend more time out in the daylight than I did when working for a living. I’d get to work in the dark and get home in the dark. I’d be in the dark most of the time and,….wait….I’m STILL in the dark most of the time. Well, enough of this nonsense, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?
Be Safe all week,
Tom K. 
16 October 1905
The Wright brothers completed their current series of flight tests. They did not fly again until May 1908.
16 October 1909
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin formed Delag (Die Deutsche Luftschiffahrt Aktiengesellschaft), the world’s first commercial airline company. Between 1910 and 1913 the company carried 34,000 passengers.
17 October 1911
Zee Yee Lee became the first Chinese pilot to qualify for a Royal Aero Club certificate (No. 148), flying a Bristol Boxkite on Salisbury Plain.
15 October 1913
The first official airmail flight in France was made by Lieutenant Ronin, carrying a 22-pound sack of letters to Pauillac in a Morane-Saulneir.
17 October 1913
Zeppelin LZ18 (L2) burned while in the air over Johannistal. All of the 28 crew members perished.
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Picture Of The Day
6:38 am
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York
