Tag: Historic Travel

Keeping Vintage Planes in the Sky: ‘It’s Part of Your Soul’

For all the nostalgists out there (I know I’m not the only one), the Globe and Mail has a heartwarming item about the volunteers who keep Canada’s shrinking fleet of vintage planes in the air. A handful of aging pilots, mechanics and engineers put in hundreds of thousands of hours each year keeping the remaining planes—including a World War II-era Lancaster bomber, one of just two in the world that remain airworthy—in flying condition.

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R.I.P. Paul MacCready, ‘Father of Human-Powered Flight’

Paul MacCready, the engineer who designed the first plane to fly under only human power, has died at the age of 81. Reports the AP: “On Aug. 23, 1977, the MacCready-designed, lightweight Gossamer Condor made the first sustained, controlled flight powered solely by a human. The flight, pedal-powered by pilot Bryan Allen, lasted just 7 1/2 minutes but covered a figure-eight course with pylons a half-mile apart at the airport in Shafter, Calif.”


R.I.P. Rosa Parks

The world’s most famous bus passenger passed away today. Parks, whose refusal in 1955 to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, was 92.


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