Surprise: it’s Dr. Shaw, from Prometheus, sending some John Denver acapella out into the void. Someone asks if they’re kidding so resident pilot “Tennessee” can say, “I never kid about John Denver.” As if anybody every does. He died in a plane crash, you see, and his music’...
With that decision, Dwight set in motion a series of events that would very nearly lead to him being among the first astronauts. As Dwight progressed through the Air Force, he was handpicked by President John F. Kennedy’s White House to join Chuck Yeager’s test pilot program at Edwards...
Following the disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart in July 1937, her aviator-style hat and goggles became a popular children's Christmas gift. Earhart was declared dead in January 1939, and various theories continue to circulate about what could have happened to the famed pilot. 15 /...
The sight of John Travolta in a white suit, standing with his hand held high upon a colorful dance floor, is one of the most iconic images of the '70s. Through clothing, dancing and, of course, the music, ‘Saturday Night Fever’ brought disco nightlife to the mainstream. Released in ...
interfaces happening to D-STAR anytime soon, unless that's some super-duper developer's "hot button" and they want to spend oodles and oodles of time figuring it out. We'll see... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot...
In virtually all the structure-related accidents the airplane was flown outside the envelope. Often as not this was the result of the pilot losing control. The airplane had light and delightful control forces and while it was stable in pitch it was less so in roll. If a pilot was going ...
The victim of a 1994 cold case death in Riverside, California has been identified as an elderly woman who was originally from Oneida, according to authorities. Patricia Cavallaro, born on March 22, 1937 in the city of Oneida, was recently identified after police used DNA evidence to make the...
the public – thePalmPilot. This stylus-controlled device was truly pocketable, easily synchronized with Mac or PC, had a very good battery life, and used a handwriting recognition system (Graffiti) that was very accurate, although it forced the user to learn how to draw letters a specific ...
At a stop in Denver, Aliengena lost his composure over the refusal to let the Wiesners in on short notice. Aliengena, Wiesner and a third pilot, Lance Allyn, of Hanford, Calif., had pitched in $13,000 each to finance the documentary film. ...
- All-time highest temperature: 122° F (Waste Isolt'n Pilot Plt on June 27, 1994) - All-time lowest temperature: -50° F (Gavilan on Feb. 1, 1951) - All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 11.28 inches (Lake Maloya on May 18–19, 1955) ...