Happy Aviation History Month! Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Goodfellow Foundation, Wikipedia, This Day in Aviation.com; Lockheed Martin Below information, unless noted otherwise, is courtesy of the Goodfellow Historical Foundation. Nationally, in the United States, November is Aviation History Month. So, let’s review a few early November aviation history tidbits to celebrate Aviation History Month.…
The Daniel Guggenheim Medal and my son-in-law’s grandfather, Eugene Covert Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Charleslindbergh.com, news.mit.edu We typically focus on the famous, the in-the-news, constantly reported-on, “People Magazine-type” people when we think about or write about people. The “in the background”, back stage, supporting-cast kind of people often go unrecognized. I have written a…
James Dean and Historic Route 66 Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Members.tripod.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, Copilot AI Those of us younger than 70 might not know much of actor James Dean, nor much about the “Mother Road”, Route 66. And, I doubt they will remember watching the iconic TV show, “Route 66” that helped make the…
This Day in Aviation History: National Parks Airways Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: atlasobscura.com Happy October and federal government shutdown! Let’s hope the political bickering ends soon. Our National Parks are shuttered, for now, given the federal government shutdown. In honor of that vast National Park system (as well as our National Monuments and other…
This Day in “Aviation”…”When Pigs Fly” Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Obscura.com, Library of Congress/Getty Images, TriStar Pictures, Mobile Oil, Cynthia Branigan “Ahh, when pigs fly” is the well-known idiom that means (according to AI) “something is so unlikely to happen that it will never happen. It’s a humorous way to express that an event…
This day in aviation (and TV) history: Baa Baa Black Sheep Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Wikipedia, United States Marine Corps Forty-nine years ago today, on September 21, 1976, the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep premiered in the United States. It didn’t last long (two seasons) but it highlighted the…
This Day in Aviation History: Reporting a UFO Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com, Craig Lindsay / Sheffield Hallam University When I was kid in the 1960’s, flying saucers or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) were all the rage. Did the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits on TV exacerbate our fears and therefore our sightings? We tossed…
This Week in Aviation History-9-11 Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Microsoft Copilot AI, Reuters, American Legion, National September 11th Memorial and Museum The 24th anniversary of 9-11 came and went this past Thursday and it’s worth the time and effort to review it one more time, this time from a mostly aviation perspective with no…