by Kevin Burns | Feb 28, 2022
In 1927, the race for the Orteig prize became one of the greatest sporting events in all history. People around the world followed every tidbit of news that was reported on it. Often if there was no news, reporters simply made it up to sell newspapers. It was...
by Kevin Burns | Feb 21, 2022
Development of modern stealth technologies in the United States began in 1958, when earlier attempts to prevent radar tracking of its U-2 spy planes during the Cold War by the Soviet Union had been unsuccessful. “Radar” which is short for RAdio Detection And...
by Kevin Burns | Feb 9, 2022
In 2020 the Netherlands will complete a year-long commemoration to 75 years of liberation from five years of Nazi repression. The Netherlands was occupied in May 1940 after five days of sometimes heavy fighting. At that time, the city center of Rotterdam was...
by Kevin Burns | Jan 15, 2022
Few community posts have as close of a connection to their namesake as Albert J. Hickman Post 460. A native of Sioux City, Iowa, he was only 21 years old and one of the youngest pilots assigned to VF-121 where he flew a McDonnell F3H-2N Demon. Fighter Squadron 121...
by Kevin Burns | Aug 10, 2021
Radiotelegraphy was the first means of radio communication. The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in the late 1800s used radiotelegraphy. It continued to be the only type of radio transmission during the first few decades of radio, called the...
by Kevin Burns | Oct 22, 2020
The Aeronautics Commission is one of the oldest in the American Legion. Aerospace, is made up of two components “Aeronautics” (aviation) and “Astronautics” (space). With the commercialization of space, this is becoming an important sector of the economy as more of...
