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November 13, 2007 3:22 am

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C-47 Skytrain – 42-92277 – “Boogie Baby”

Flown by the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team Foundation

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This Week In Military/Aviation History: 5 – 11 November

November 9, 2007 7:34 pm

Well Folks, Surprise! It’s been a week already. There’s seven days we won’t get back, eh? Seriously, I hope your week went well. We\’re losing our notable members of the Greatest Generation. What is the Boomer Generation known as? That might be it there. (B.G.) Well, we’ve started what people think will kill Social Security and other things by growing older. Our bad.

You know, it’s strange, but I find myself enjoying Big Band music and the singers who were popular then more and more. Even more than the rock and roll I grew up with. I mean, it was alright before, but now it seems like I can, and prefer to, listen to that older music for hours and hours. Of course, I don’t get the newer stuff at all. I’ve tried, but I just can’t get into it at all. We have a radio station here in Rochester, NY called WLGZ or Legends 990. It’s an AM station (that’s right, AM) that plays quite a few of these real oldies. They stream on the internet and I pop it in the background on my ‘puter when I’m typing. They’re big on Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Glenn Miller, The Dorsey Brothers and even Vaughn Monroe. You young Folks, ask your parents or even your Grandparents who the devil these people were. It’s neat, every day at noon, they play Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” and at midnight play “the Star Spangled Banner.” I don’t know where their musical time cutoff is but it may be 1987. (Going back 60 years from there.) They will play later stuff if you request it, but not that much later. It’s also easy listening (for me, anyway). It has become my favorite station.On that note, let’s get down to some serious history, shall we?

9 November 1904
Wilbur Wright flew 2.75 miles at Dayton. This was the first flight of more than 5 minutes.

10 November 1907
Louis Bleriot made his first flight in a Type VII monoplane. This was the ancestor of modern tractor monoplanes.

7 November 1910
The world\’s first freight-carrying flight occurred when Philip O. Palmalee piloted a Wright Model B biplane, transporting silk from Dayton to Columbus in Ohio, for the Morehouse-Martens Company.

6 November 1915
The first airplane to be catapault-launched from a moving ship was a Curtiss AB2 flying boat piloted by Lieutenant Commander Henry Mustin, launched from the battleship USS North Carolina at Pensacola Bay in Florida.

7 November 1917
The storming of the winter palace in Moscow heralded the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia. (90 years later the USSR is but an unpleasant memory)

10 November 1917
Bolsheviks set up the Bureau of Commissars of Aviation and Aeronautics (BKAV).

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