This Day in Aviation History: A Great Mother’s Day Story Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Alaska Airlines Good Mother’s Day-eve and happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there that spent the best part of their lives guiding their children to productive adulthood and built the next generation of successful Americans. Thank you for your…
Tomorrow in Aviation History: May 7, 1975 – Official End of the Vietnam War. Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: Wikipedia, The Daily Mail, War History Online Photo © War History Online and downloaded on April 30, 2025 from: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-day-saigon-fell-how-chaos-helicopters-and-history-marked-the-end-of-a-war-america-couldn-t-win/ss-AA1DUmLX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b26d07dd56d649cc878b5ae26d48e7a7&ei=40#image=2 From War History Online: “The final evacuation of Saigon was code-named Operation Frequent Wind, becoming the…
This Day in Aviation History: The Beginning of The End of Zeppelins Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com and Sam Shere/Wikimedia-public domain According History.com and downloaded on May 6, 2025 from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-6/the-hindenburg-disaster, “The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its mooring mast in…
An Aviation History Twofer: On This Day in Aviation History in 1942 and 1952. Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com, US Navy, and USAF Welcome to an aviation history twofer! According to History.com and downloaded on May 3, 2025 from: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-3/the-battle-of-the-coral-sea-begins, “On May 3, 1942, during World War II, the first modern naval engagement in…
How We Measure Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: New York Times, Shutterstock, NASA/KSG, Jonathan Simone Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, Brock University I hope your week measured up to your expectations. Speaking of measuring up, how do we measure? This question has a big impact on all of our lives in many ways, including the…
On This Day in Aviation History: The First Westbound Non-Stop Flight from Europe to North America Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com, YouTube, Public Domain Photo of the Bremen, and the Associated Press Even though overshadowed by Charles Lindbergh’s first flight from the US to Europe, the first flight in the opposite direction (more difficult…
Aviator Superstitions and Apollo 13 Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com, NASA, American Legion For those of you reading this who are not aviators, you may not be aware that aviators can be, in general, a suspicious group. Some keep rabbit’s feet (or at least they once kept rabbit’s feet when you could easily get…
On This Day in Aviation History-Germanwings Flight 9525 Contributor: Barry Fetzer Sources: History.com, Wikipedia, Andrew Heneen, Flightrader24, Sebastien Mortier If anything, what scares you about flying? Though I didn’t dwell on the possibilities too much when I was flying USMC aircraft, when I did think about it or when we discussed the subject in…