I just came across a fun blog – Cut and Paste Aviation.
The online aviation athenaeum providing daily milestones of flight — past and present, links to books, articles, documentaries, and other online resources celebrating and educating the public about the world-changing achievements of flight.
The milestones in flight feature is quite enlightening.
On 12/8/1965:
150 U.S. Air Force and Navy planes launch Operation Tiger Hound to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the lower portion of the Laotian panhandle, from Route 9 west of the Demilitarized Zone, south to the Cambodian border.
The purpose of this operation, which lasted until 1968, was to reduce North Vietnamese infiltration down the trail into South Vietnam. After 1968, the Tiger Hound missions became part of a new operation called Commando Hunt.
On 11/30/1907:
Glenn Curtiss founds the Curtiss Aeroplane Company. It is the first US airplane manufacturing company.
Facts I did not know. Interesting site.
Seventh manned and third rendezvous mission of the Gemini program². Major objectives of the mission were to rendezvous and dock with the augmented target docking adapter (ATDA) and to conduct extravehicular activities (EVA). These objectives were only partially met. After successfully achieving rendezvous during the third revolution – a secondary objective – the crew discovered that the ATDA shroud had failed to separate, precluding docking – a primary objective – as well as docking practice – another secondary objective. The crew was able, however, to achieve other secondary objectives: an equi-period rendezvous, using onboard optical techniques and completed at 6 hours 36 minutes ground elapsed time; and a rendezvous from above, simulating the rendezvous of an Apollo command module with a lunar module in a lower orbit (completed at 21 hours 42 minutes ground elapsed time). Final separation maneuver was performed at 22 hours 59 minutes after liftoff. EVA was postponed because of crew fatigue, and the second day was given over to experiments. The hatch was opened for EVA at 49 hours 23 minutes ground elapsed time. EVA was successful, but one secondary objective – evaluation of the astronaut maneuvering unit (AMU) – was not achieved because Cernan’s visor began fogging. Cernan began his EVA, which was to include flight with a USAF MMU rocket pack but the Gemini suit could not handle heat load of the astronaut’s exertions. Cernan’s faceplate fogs up, forcing him to blindly grope back into the Gemini hatch after only two hours.
Wow!! Great facts on the site. Thanks for referring.
Found this interesting blog.