He attended the Armor Officer Basic Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky and then went to flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Aviation was created as a separate Branch in the Army in late 1983, and officer classes started in 1984. Up until that time, officer pilots came from other branches (...
Political control: Republicans have a supermajority in the Kentucky Legislature and have been restricting abortion rights since the 2016 election over the vetoes of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who supports abortion rights and will seek a second term in 2023. Background: Kentucky bans abortions ...
Jacqueline Cochran worked her way out of poverty to become one of the most successful female aviators of the 20th century. After obtaining her pilot's license in three weeks while working as a cosmetics saleswoman, she took the aviation world by storm andset record after record.Her most notab...
Cigarette smokers will keep smoking because of their addiction and when given the options of smoking or completely giving up nicotine, many will not give it up. This rigid dichotomous scheme may be now considered legacy of the past as many of them would be better off using nicotine in a low...
• •Just shortly before the Bell patent was to expire, in 1893, the world first wireless telephone was demonstrated in 1892, by Nathan B. Stubblefield. His wireless telephone worked along side his own telephone system, connected to his own local Murray, Kentucky Telephone company. ...
One rider responded in the negative to the first question which asked whether they had been injured in their recent fall, and then later in the questionnaire reported that he had later sought medical attention for concussion and broken ribs. Some reports of concussion and fractures were clearly ...