Subsequent operators: Heavyweight Intl (renamed British Cargo Airlines in 1979) 12/1/78; stored 3/14/80-8/1/82; Heavylift Cargo Airlines [EI-BND] 12/29/93; Buffalo Airways 8/1/97; Azerbaijan Airlines [4K-GUP] 4/23/98; Baku Express 8/8/98; First Intl Airlines [9G-LCA] 8/3/99...
The Flight of the Invisible Airplane, 1915Daniel C. Schlenoff
Pilgrim 100-A (American Airlines) 100, 100-A aka American Pilgrim 1931 (ATC 443, 2-365) = 10pChwM; 575hp P&W Hornet B; span: 57'0" length: 38'1" load: 3388# v: 136/118/65 range: 400-500. Virginius Clark. Essentially a Fairchild product, descended from Fairchild 100. $28,750...
Edwards, Don– [496 Pages, 102MB] – William Donlon “Don” Edwards (January 6, 1915 – October 1, 2015) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California. Egger, Roscoe– [94 Pages, 47.1MB] – Roscoe Lynn Egge...
On Sept. 29 while at the UN, Castro's Cubana Airlines plane was impounded because of non-payment of debts to American creditors. Khrushchev supplied a Soviet plane to fly the Cubans home. In September 1960 Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, took part in talks with Allen W. Dulles, the di...
Russia’s Josef Stalin had slaughtered at least 3 million Ukrainians during the forced famine called the Holodomor. The Ottoman Empire decimated Turkey’s population of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks between 1915 and 1920. A century earlier, Tasmanian Aboriginals were slain to extinction in colon...
Former NFL player accused of urinating on passenger during Boston to Dublin flight National Football League (NFL), major American professional football organization, founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio, as the American Professional Football Association. Its first president was Jim Thorpe, an outstanding ...
In 1915, Western Avenue became part of the Dixie Highway, a network of roads from Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois that took travelers south to Miami. The development of highways for tourism led to vastly different experiences for white and black Americans. From 1936 until 1964, the famous “Gre...
Consequently, the Kaydet was nicknamed the “Washing Machine” because of the number of would-be pilots that got “washed out” of flight training.ConstellationThe original Constellation was developed in 1939 as a commercial airliner for Transcontinental & Western Air – later Trans-World Airlines (...
If you’re planning on flying American Airlines, know there’s a chance that your flight may be cancelled.