1949: After 94 hours, 1 minute of flying time, a Boeing B-50 named Lucky Lady II lands at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, completing the first ever nonstop, around-the-world trip by an airplane.
The flight covered 23,452 miles, averaging a ground speed of 249 miles per hour. The modified bomber required air-to-air refueling four times as it [...]
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March 2, 1949: Around the World Without Landing
March 2nd, 2010 |
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July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport
July 24th, 2009 |
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1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket.
Cape Canaveral, a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern shore when, in 1948, an Air Force committee recommended its procurement for a missile testing range.
Actually, [...]
Andrew Kreig: Did DoJ Blackmail Siegelman Witness With Sex Scandal?
July 21st, 2009 |
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The top government witness in the 2006 federal conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges is providing new evidence that prosecutors failed…