Tag: Historic Travel
Keeping Vintage Planes in the Sky: ‘It’s Part of Your Soul’
by Eva Holland | 09.16.08 | 10:03 AM ET
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.
R.I.P. Paul MacCready, ‘Father of Human-Powered Flight’
by Jim Benning | 08.30.07 | 12:41 PM ET
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
by Michael Yessis | 10.24.05 | 9:39 PM ET
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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