#charles lindberg

[bigglesworld]

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius 'Tingmissartoq' NR 211. With the Lindbergs. They flew this aircraft on their flight to the Orient via the Great Circle Route, starting from North Haven, Maine (July 1931) and ending in Nanjing, China (September 1931).

[intomore]

Charles Lindbergh and an unidentified man stand next to a Lockheed Air Express at Vail Field in Montebello, (1927)*

Historical Notes:

The plane as seen above was the second aircraft designed and created by the Lockheed Aircraft Company after its founding in 1927. The design of the Air Express was based on the original fuselage of the Lockheed Vega, but the wing was raised to a parasol configuration above the fuselage and the cockpit was moved to behind the wing. Only seven Air Express planes were built.*

[wisegardenbluebird]

CHARLES LINDBERGH, CRIMEN Y CASTIGO

50 años de la muerte de un héroe caído Francisco R. Pastoriza          Si exceptuamos las guerras, los grandes atentados terroristas y los accidentes con muchos muertos, pocos acontecimientos son capaces de conmocionar a todo un país como los asesinatos de niños. En 1932 Estados Unidos vivió una situación así cuando alguien robó de la cuna en la que dormía en Hopewell, Nueva Jersey, un bebé de…

[theriancultureis]

Winged Therian culture is this one quote from Charles Lindberg, "It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane."

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[icarus-suraki]

A class is reading The Great Gatsby, that perennial high school favorite, and the students each have to do a short presentation on something else that was going on in the 1920s. A student was talking to me about it and listing off some of the topics.

One of the topics is Sacco and Vanzetti. And the tiny Allen Ginsberg who lives in my brain called out through my mouth,

America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die

So then I had twice as much to explain to this poor student, alongside Charles Lindbergh and his flight across the Atlantic and then the mysterious kidnap and murder of the Lindberg Baby.

But my point is that I need to go listen to America again, today in particular. And I really ought to remember

America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

[hussyknee]

I guessed that Murder on the Orient Express was inspired by the Lindberg kidnapping, but I didn't know that 1) one of the Lindbergs maids killed herself over the police's harsh interrogation and suspicion of her and, 2) Charles was a patriarchal autocrat of a father and husband and a hypocritical moralizer who had children with multiple women unbeknownst to his wife, 3) they were motherfucking Nazi sympathisers who were friends with Henry Ford. Everything about them on their Wikipedia pages sounds horrible. Idk why I never looked them up before. Only sympathetic to their poor baby now.

[postsentiment]

11, 22, 33

Yippee i'm sorry to just now be getting around to these!

11: you are like charles lindberg to me - alsace lorraine 22: a hiding smile - apple orchard 33: the argument - the sea and cake

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[kwebtv]

The Lindberg Kidnapping Case - CBS - February 26, 1976

Historical Drama

Running Time: 148 minutes

Stars:

Cliff DeYoung as Charles Lindbergh

Anthony Hopkins as Bruno Hauptmann

Denise Alexander as Violet Sharpe

Sian Barbara Allen as Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Martin Balsam as Edward J. Reilly

Joseph Cotten as Dr. John F. Condon

Peter Donat as Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

John Fink as Mr. Anderson

Dean Jagger as Arthur Koehler

Laurence Luckinbill as Gov. Hal Hoffman

Frank Marth as Chief Harry Wolfe

Walter Pidgeon as Judge Thomas Whitaker Trenchard

Tony Roberts as Lt. Jim Finn

Robert Sampson as John Curtis

David Spielberg as David Wilentz

Joseph Stern as Dr. Schonfeld

Kate Woodville as Betty Gow

Keenan Wynn as Fred Huisache

Alan Beckwith as Walter Lyle

[jawbonejoe]

Anyone know a good book about Charles Lindberg being a fucking nazi and his effect on the American populace sphere? Need some research material

[khorneschosen]

Neil armstrong disapproving of privatized space travel has the same vibes, as charles lindberg (first nonstop transatlantic flight) disapproving of the first manned flights to the moon.

Apparently in charles case, earth and the heavens belong to god and he's not very particular about which god, and to Niel earth and the star belongs to the government, and he's not very particular about which government.

Both ruin the greatness of their own legacies and it's truly tragic.

I want some of y'all to understand that a lot of people don't want us to leave this planet. They want us to stay till the sun explodes.

[juliehowlin]

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh was fascinated by transport and mechanics from an early age and learned to fly at the age of 20. At first, though, he wasn’t allowed to fly solo because he couldn’t afford to pay for a damage bond.

On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about Charles Lindbergh:

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Wann werden Populisten zu Faschisten?

Trump kündigt Diktatur an

Florian Harms vergleicht auf t-online.de die Kandidatur Donald Trumps mit der Geschichte die Philip Roth in seinem Roman "Verschwörung gegen Amerika" über den Populisten Charles Lindbergh bei der Präsidentschaftswahl im Jahr 1940 erzählt. Obwohl er "nur" Populist genannt wird, ist Lindberg für uns mit seiner Bewunderung Hitlers ein Nazi. Ähnliches gilt für Trump, wenn man sein "Programm" anschaut. Interessanterweise haben US Präsidentschaftskandidaten stets nur ein eigenes Programm, welches mit dem abstrakten Parteiprogrammen von Republikanern und Demokraten nicht viel gemein haben muss.

Jedenfalls hat Trump damit die 1. Vorwahl im bäuerlichen Iowa mit absoluter Mehrheit von 55% gewonnen. Auch Florian Harms fällt es schwer in dem "infantilen Gebrabbel eines Vierjährigen zu unterscheiden; viele seiner Sätze erschöpfen sich in umgangssprachlichen Endloswiederholungen, anmaßendem Selbstlob, wüsten Beschimpfungen seiner Gegner und dreisten Lügen" ein Programm zu erkennen. Doch was Florian Harms erkennt, ist erschreckend:

An Tag eins will er "wie ein Diktator regieren". Er sinniert über "die Aussetzung aller Regeln, Vorschriften und Artikel, sogar derjenigen in der Verfassung".

"Der erste Tag des Präsidenten wird eine Abrissbirne für den Verwaltungsstaat sein."

Laut seinem Wahlprogramm plant er, die Exekutivgewalt massiv auszuweiten und das Justizsystem drastisch zu beschneiden.

Er will bis zu 50.000 Bundesbedienstete entlassen und durch ideologisch gedrillte Anhänger ersetzen.

Kritische Journalisten will Trump mundtot machen, liberale Medien "in die Flucht jagen."

"Wir werden die Wurzeln der Kommunisten, Marxisten, Faschisten und linksradikalen Gangster herausreißen, die wie Ungeziefer in den Grenzen unseres Landes leben, die lügen, stehlen, bei Wahlen betrügen und alles in ihrer Macht Stehende tun – ob legal oder illegal –, um Amerika und den amerikanischen Traum zu zerstören", sagte er auf einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung.

Das ist nach unserer Meinung schlimmer als Populismus - das ist purer Faschismus. Vielleicht sollte man die Reden unserer "Populisten" vor den diesjährigen Wahlen genauer untersuchen, solange man es noch darf ..., z.B. hier im AfD Programm "Bürger" wählen eigenen Totengräber.

Mehr dazu bei https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/tagesanbruch/id_100321944/us-wahl-2024-donald-trump-kuendigt-diktatur-an.html

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[audio-luddite]

1961 recording

Well this is interesting. Mercury Living Presence SR90212 Chabrier by the Detroit Symphony Paul Paray conducting. A Decca Classics pressing.

Not only is everyone involved passed away so is the building the recording was done in. The Cass Technical High School. It was a HIGH SCHOOL and was demolished for a freeway. Hey it was Detroit. A High school with an FN opera house style auditorium! Times have changed. Apparently Charles Lindberg's mom taught science there.

The amazingly simple recording technique is very effective. Look it up if you want details. 3 microphones three tracks no equalization or compression. It works.

My reaction to first listen is a bit ambivalent. Everything is really immediate but I question the sharpness of the violins at full tilt. Woodwinds are spot on, drums are perfect, ambiance is well, real. It could be that the system is still warming up or I need to clean the disc more or it is just too new. Not distortion, just really hot. Or that may be what they wanted in the late 1950s. Tweeters were not so good, or those tube amps from the era.

The good parts are worth every penny. I will see if later listens are better. My system likes to be running for a couple hours to really sing. I was anxious so only one hour warm up.

This is a full orchestra playing in my living room.

OK for the dweebs this is 1/2 speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios, (yes that Abbey Road) with the final mix down from 3 track analog to 2 track digital by the son of the original engineer and producer who were a couple. The family business.

Mr Fremer may forgive that there is a digital step, but purists are wringing their hair out for the impurity. Oh get over it. (maybe that's why the violins are so edgy?) My best CD is from the same label.

Hey it came here all the way from Germany, (why do we call it Germany, but they call it Deutschland ? It's not hard to say.)

Next up Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony (Organ). Also Detroit Symphony Paul Paray with Marcel Dupre' playing the organ. SR90012 so really early in the series, a 1958 recording. I am familiar with this work. I have it on another disc, a London Ffrr twelve years newer and no slouch of a recording. Also a Decca, but Universal had not bought everybody up yet.

Oh I am really tempted to play that London to compare it is right here. That would piss off the missus. "Always the same thing!"

Here comes the organ. Spooky as organs should be as they were intended to scare the crap out of illiterate peasants. It is big and everywhere. Also a bit reserved if that is the right word. Haunting.

I gotta say right now that I think I like the London version better with Zubin Mehta in LA. Maybe I just have to turn up the volume. Ya lets try that. Oh that helps.

The tonal balance shouts 50s to me. Many of my other discs are deeper and richer sounding. Again these are not equalized or compressed according to the legends. New disc and it needs more cleaning.

Side two. Faster tempo, conductor is pushing it.

The timbre of the instruments is very nice. The metal is very metallic and love the woodwinds and brass. The image is good, and spread across my fireplace. The Organ is rich and complex with a definite growl.

Actually the quieter bits are interesting as you get more ambience. Its a good effect.

The very last part the conductor slowed it down just a bit.

This is a first impression, and I will listen again.

I could not resist. I have the last half of side two from Zubin Mehta's version spinning. 1971 issue. I prefer it. I like the interpretation more. The sound is bigger and richer. Of course it is what I have formed my original opinions with. Cool thing the MLP recording sounds like it is high up looking down. This one sounds like you are in front, which is more natural for a real concert situation. Strings not so edgy. It has more body overall. The orchestra is spread across my room properly. The London Ffrr is a good LP.

Though I prefer the way the Detroit organ sounds. I realize that the stops and tunings are set by the organist, and that is part of it for sure. Organs sound the way the performer wants them to. It was just more interesting in the MLP disc.

Again this is all first impression. LPs will sound better after a few plays when flash and tips get knocked off the vinyl. It should settle down. The tiny details of timbre are exceptional. The full orchestra going all out err, not as much fun.

As an historical document it is satisfying. Overall my ambivalence endures.

[spacenutspod]

December 1968 ended a year more turbulent than most. For the American space program, however, it brought the Moon landing one giant step closer. The successful first lunar orbital flight by Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders proved the space worthiness of the Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) at lunar distances and demonstrated navigation beyond low Earth orbit. Preparations continued for the next two missions – Apollo 9 to test the Lunar Module (LM) in Earth orbit in February or March 1969, and Apollo 10 to repeat the test in lunar orbit in May. If those missions proved successful, NASA hoped to achieve the first Moon landing by the summer of 1969. Left: Apollo 8 astronauts James A. Lovell, left, Frank Borman, and William A. Anders during the preflight crew press conference. Middle: At the White House, Apollo 7 astronauts R. Walter Cunningham, left, Donn F. Eisele, and Walter M. Schirra, Apollo 8 astronauts Anders, Lovell, and Borman, standing at right, watch aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindberg sign a commemorative document, as First Lady “Lady Bird” Johnson, President Lyndon B. Johnson, former NASA Administrator James E. Webb, and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey look on. Right: During the countdown demonstration test, Borman, standing left, Lovell, and Anders pose with their backups Neil A. Armstrong, kneeling left, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Fred W. Haise. On Dec. 2, Borman, Lovell, and Anders held their preflight press conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Borman summed up the crew’s readiness, “I think we can say we’re ready two weeks before” the flight. President Lyndon B. Johnson invited Apollo 7 astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham to a state dinner at the White House on Dec. 9, 1968. He also invited Apollo 8 astronauts Borman, Lovell, and Anders, just 12 days from their historic launch to the Moon, as well as aviation pioneer Charles A. Lindberg to sign a commemorative document to hang in the White House Treaty Room. Two days later, Borman, Lovell, and Anders and their backups Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Fred W. Haise participated in the countdown demonstration test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Left: The Apollo 8 launch vehicle at Launch Pad 39A during the countdown demonstration test. Middle: Apollo 8 crew of William A. Anders, left, Frank Borman, and James A. Lovell at the Command Module simulator at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Right: Lovell, left, Borman, and Anders enjoy some pre-holiday cheer on the eve of their launch to the Moon. Engineers at KSC’s Launch Complex 39 completed the Apollo 8 Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT) between Dec. 5 and 11, consisting of “wet” and “dry” phases. In the first wet phase, they simulated the entire countdown including the loading of propellant in the rocket’s three stages, down to T minus 8.9 seconds, the time when the first stage’s five F-1 engines ignite. For safety reasons, the crew did not participate in the wet countdown. At the end of the wet phase on Dec. 10, workers drained the fuel from the rocket and recycled the countdown. The next day, the countdown again proceeded to the point of first stage ignition, but for this dry phase the astronauts suited up and strapped into the capsule as they would on launch day. The CDDT also tied in the Mission Control Center (MCC) at MSC, and the Manned Space Flight Network, a series of tracking stations around the world used to monitor the mission. With the CDDT completed, the countdown for Apollo 8 began on Dec. 15. Left: Liftoff of Apollo 8. Middle: A rapidly receding Earth shortly after Trans-Lunar Injection. Right: The spent S-IVB third stage with the Lunar Module (LM) Test Article-B (LTA-B) visible where a LM would normally reside. On Dec. 21, 1968, at precisely 7:51 a.m. EST, at Launch Pad 39A the five engines of the Saturn V’s first stage came to life, powering up to their full 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The brilliance of the flame rivaled the sunrise. At the top of the rocket, strapped inside their Command Module (CM), Borman, Lovell, and Anders experienced firsthand the power of a Saturn V launch. As soon as the rocket cleared the launch tower, control of the mission transferred from the Launch Control Center at Launch Complex 39 to MCC at MSC. From there, three teams of controllers, led by Lead Flight Director Clifford E. Charlesworth and Flight Directors Glynn S. Lunney and Milton L. Windler, working in eight-hour shifts, monitored the mission until splashdown. During the launch and early phases of the flight, Michael Collins served as the capsule communicator, or capcom, the astronaut in MCC who spoke directly with the crew. Within 11 and a half minutes, the three stages of the Saturn V placed Apollo 8 into Earth orbit. For the next 90 minutes, MCC and the astronauts thoroughly checked out the spacecraft’s systems, and capcom Collins informed the crew, “You are go for TLI,” or Trans-Lunar Injection, a less than dramatic way of saying “You’re off to the Moon!” Those words committed the mission to break the bonds of Earth’s gravity and set a course for the Moon. Near the end of the second revolution around the Earth, the rocket’s third stage engine fired for a second time, for more than five minutes, increasing Apollo 8’s speed from 17,400 miles per hour to 24,226 miles per hour, enough to overcome Earth’s gravity and send it on a Moonward trajectory. Soon after the burn ended, the astronauts separated their spacecraft from the spent stage and began their three-day cruise to the Moon. The famous Earthrise photograph from Apollo 8. During the journey, Borman, Lovell, and Anders passed through the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts and crossed into the Moon’s gravitational sphere of influence. About 69 hours after launch, Apollo 8 passed the leading edge of the Moon and disappeared behind it, all communications with Earth cut off. While behind the Moon, the astronauts performed the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, but for a few anxious minutes, only they knew that their spacecraft’s engine had performed as expected. As they emerged on the Moon’s other side precisely at the predicted time, MCC confirmed that Apollo 8 had achieved lunar orbit. The astronauts began to describe the Moon as no other humans had seen it before. Left: The Tsiolkovski Crater on the Moon’s farside, seen directly by human eyes for the first time during Apollo 8. Middle: Apollo 8 shortly after splashdown, with the astronauts in the life raft awaiting pick up by the recovery helicopter. Right: Apollo 8 astronauts arrive on the prime recovery ship U.S.S. Yorktown. For the next 20 hours, they orbited the Moon 10 times. On their ninth revolution, knowing that Christmas Eve had turned to Christmas Day, Borman, Lovell, and Anders read from The Bible’s Book of Genesis and wished everyone on “the good Earth” a Merry Christmas. On their final revolution, they disappeared behind the Moon one last time and fired their spacecraft’s engine to propel them out of lunar orbit to head back toward Earth. Once they reestablished contact at the predicted time, Lovell proclaimed, “Please be informed there is a Santa Claus,” his way of saying that the engine burned as expected. The astronauts spent the next three days coasting back toward Earth, ending their historic six-day mission with a predawn splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Teams from the prime recovery ship U.S.S. Yorktown (CV-10) recovered them from the water and brought them aboard the carrier. Left: Apollo 8 astronauts (wearing leis) William A. Anders, left, James A. Lovell, and Frank Borman listen to Hawaii Governor John A. Burns during their brief stopover at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) in Honolulu. Middle: Anders, left, Borman, and Lovell give short speeches to the crowd gathered to welcome them home at Ellington AFB in Houston. Right: The Apollo 8 Command Module on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Image credit: courtesy Museum of Science and Industry. From the Yorktown, Borman, Lovell, and Anders flew to Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) in Honolulu. Following a brief welcome ceremony hosted by Hawaii Governor John A. Burns, their boarded a transport jet bound for Texas. Upon their arrival back in Houston on Dec. 29, more than 2,000 people greeted them at Ellington AFB despite the pre-dawn chill. Meanwhile, after the Yorktown arrived in Honolulu on Dec. 29, workers removed the CM to begin safing its systems. They flew it to Long Beach, California, and from there trucked it to its manufacturer, the North American Rockwell Space Division in Downey, California, where it arrived on Jan. 1, 1969, for a thorough postflight inspection. Since 1971, the Apollo 8 CM has been on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. TIME magazine named Borman, Lovell, and Anders Men of the Year for 1968. Apollo 8 brought the Moon landing one giant step closer. Apollo 9 astronauts James A. McDivitt, left, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart pose in front of the Apollo 8 Saturn V during its terminal countdown demonstration test at Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Due to delays in its development, the LM remained one component of the lunar mission architecture that Apollo 8 did not test. The task of conducting the first crewed evaluation of the LM fell to Apollo 9, scheduled for late February 1969. As the prime crew for the 10-day Earth orbital mission, NASA assigned James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart, with Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard F. Gordon, and Alan L. Bean as their backups. McDivitt and Schweickart planned to enter the LM while Scott remained in the CM. Before the two spacecraft undocked, Schweickart planned to conduct a roughly 2-hour spacewalk, using prepositioned handholds to translate from the LM to the CM, where Scott awaited him in the open hatch. The dual spacewalk served to demonstrate a backup transfer capability should a problem arise with the internal transfer tunnel. The spacewalk would also serve as the only in-space test of the new Apollo A7L spacesuit before the Moon landing. Following the spacewalk, McDivitt and Schweickart planned to undock the LM and conduct an independent flight up to a distance of 100 miles, and test both the descent and ascent stage engines, before rejoining Scott in the CM. Apollo 9 prime and backup astronauts test the new Apollo A7L spacesuit in the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. David R. Scott, left, Russell L. Schweickart, and Alan L. Bean. International Latex Corporation (ILC) of Dover, Delaware, developed two versions of the Apollo A7L space suit for NASA – one for use exclusively inside the spacecraft, such as during launch, and the other that astronauts can also use during spacewalks, using the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack. Both types of the suit could operate under vacuum conditions, but crew members wearing the inside version remained attached to the spacecraft via hoses that provided life support such as oxygen. The external version’s PLSS provided the required oxygen and communications during spacewalks outside the vehicle, for example on the lunar surface. For Apollo 9, McDivitt and Schweickart wore the external versions (even though McDivitt did not plan to do a spacewalk) while Scott wore the internal version. McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart, and Bean tested their A7L spacesuits with the PLSS under vacuum conditions in Chamber A of the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at MSC. In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Left: The assembled Apollo 9 spacecraft arrives from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, and shares space in the transfer aisle with the recently arrived Apollo 10 first stage. Middle: Workers hoist the Apollo 9 spacecraft in preparation for stacking onto the Saturn V rocket, with the Lunar Module’s landing gear visible. Right: Workers stack the Apollo 9 spacecraft onto its Saturn V rocket. On Nov. 30, workers in KSC’s Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) installed the Apollo 9 LM in its Spacecraft LM Adapter (SLA) and then stacked the CSM on top. They transferred the assembled spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) three days later where engineers stacked it atop its Saturn V rocket in High Bay 3. Rollout to Launch Pad 39A occurred in early January 1969.  Left: Workers ready the Apollo 10 S-IC first stage for stacking onto the Mobile Launcher in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Middle: Workers stack the Apollo 10 S-II second stage. Right: The S-IVB third stage for Apollo 10 arrives at KSC. Preparations continued for Apollo 10, the mission planned for May 1969 to test all the spacecraft components in lunar orbit as a possible dress rehearsal for the Moon landing. The Apollo 10 prime crew consisted of Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan, the first all-veteran three-person crew, with L. Gordon Cooper, Donn F. Eisele, and Edgar D. Mitchell assigned as their backups. Stafford and Cernan planned to undock their LM and fly it to within nine miles of the lunar surface before rejoining Young in the CM. At KSC, in the VAB’s High Bay 2, by Dec. 7 workers had stacked the first two stages of the Apollo 10 Saturn V. The third stage arrived at KSC on Dec. 10 and workers stacked it atop the rocket on Dec. 29. Apollo 9 spacecraft testing in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Left and middle: Simulated docking test between the Apollo 10 Lunar Module (LM), top, and Command Module. Right: Joining the LM’s ascent stage to the descent stage. In the nearby MSOB, engineers performed a docking test of the Apollo 10 CSM and LM on Dec. 11. Following the test, workers mated the LM’s ascent and descent stages in a vacuum chamber in preparation for altitude tests in January 1969. In parallel, engineers conducted altitude tests with the CM, with prime and backup crews participating. Left: Chief test pilot Joseph S. “Joe” Algranti ejects from the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle-1 (LLTV-1) with seconds to spare. Middle: The LLTV-1 explodes as it crashes to the ground. Right: Algranti floats safely to the ground under his parachute. Apollo commanders used the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) to simulate flying the LM, especially the final 200 feet of the descent. Following Armstrong’s May 6, 1968, crash in an earlier version of the training aircraft, NASA grounded the fleet until engineers could take corrective action. Flights with LLTV-1 resumed at Ellington on Oct. 3, 1968, with MSC chief test pilot Joseph S. “Joe” Algranti at the controls. During the next two months, Algranti and fellow MSC pilot H.E. “Bud” Ream completed 14 test flights with LLTV-1 to check out the vehicle. Ream also piloted LLTV-2’s first two flights beginning Dec. 5. During LLTV-1’s 15th flight on Dec. 8, the final certification flight before resuming astronaut training, Algranti took the vehicle to 680 feet altitude and began a lunar landing simulation run. The vehicle began to oscillate in all three axes, which Algranti tried to control. But unexpected wind gusts exceeded the craft’s aerodynamic control limits and it began a sudden descent. At 100 feet altitude, and with less than a second to spare, Algranti ejected and safely parachuted to the ground with only minor bruises, but LLTV-1 crashed and burned beyond repair. Left: At Houston’s Ellington Air Force Base, workers prepare the LLTV-3 for packing into the Super Guppy cargo plane. Right: Workers at Ellington load the LLTV-3 into the Super Guppy for shipping to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for wind tunnel tests. Once again, NASA grounded the LLTVs and MSC Director Robert R. Gilruth set up an investigation board, chaired by NASA astronaut Walter M. Schirra. To better understand the vehicle’s aerodynamic characteristics, in late December NASA shipped LLTV-3 to the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where engineers tested it in the wind tunnel. Findings from the board and from the Langley tests indicated that a gust of wind that overwhelmed the vehicle’s control limits caused the LLTV-1 crash, unrelated to Armstrong’s accident. Recommendations included increasing the level of thrust in the craft’s thrusters by 50 percent to provide an additional margin of safety.  News from around the world in December 1968: Dec. 6 – The Rolling Stones release their album “Beggars Banquet.” Dec. 7 – The United States launches the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-2 space telescope. Dec. 11 – President-elect Richard M. Nixon introduces his 12 Cabinet nominees. Dec. 11 – The film “Oliver!” opens in the U.S. Dec. 16 – Musical-fantasy film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” premieres in London and two days later in New York City. Dec. 16 – Led Zeppelin’s concert debut in Denver, as opener for Vanilla Fudge. Dec. 30 – Frank Sinatra first records “My Way.” Share Details Last Updated Dec 19, 2023 Related TermsNASA HistoryApollo Explore More 8 min read 50 Years Ago: Skylab 4 Astronauts Push Past the One-Month Mark Article 2 days ago 7 min read 120 Years Ago: The First Powered Flight at Kitty Hawk Article 6 days ago 3 min read Contributions of the DC-8 to Earth System Science at NASA: A Workshop Article 1 week ago

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.6

Beer Birthdays

Henry Liebmann (1836)

Henry Rahr (1856)

Rich Link (1956)

Natalie Cilurzo (1968)

Dave Gull (1974)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Brubeck; jazz pianist, composer (1920)

Peter Buck; rock guitarist (1956)

Tom Hulce; actor (1953)

Nick Park; British animator (1958)

Steven Wright; comedian (1955)

Famous Birthdays

Judd Apatow; film director, screenwriter (1967)

Johann Christoph Bach; German composer (1642)

Larry Bowa; Philadelphia Phillies SS (1945)

Rick Buckler; English drummer (1955)

Wally Cox; actor (1924)

Gabriel Duvall; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1752)

Alfred Eisenstaedt; German photographer (1898)

Ira Gershwin; lyricist (1896)

Otto Graham; Cleveland Browns QB (1921)

Charles Martin Hall; chemist (1863)

Jean Eugene Robert Houdin; French magician (1805)

Joyce Kilmer; poet (1886)

Don King; boxing promoter (1932)

Joseph Lamb; ragtime composer (1887)

Tony Lazzeri; New York Yankess SS (1903)

Christina Lindberg; Swedish actress (1950)

Agnes Moorehead; actor (1906)

John S. "Gray Ghost" Mosby; confederate calvary commander (1833)

James Naughton; actor (1945)

David Ossman; comedian, writer, actor (1936)

George Porter; British chemist (1920)

Randy Rhoads; rock guitarist (1956)

Will Shriner; comedian (1953)

Frank Springer; comic book artist (1929)

Janine Turner; actor (1962)

Bobby Van; actor, dancer (1928)

JoBeth Williams; actor (1948)