Transcontinental Air Transport plane crashes on Mt. Taylor, 1929 1929 Airliner Crash on Mt. Taylor Falls off the FAA Historical Radar Screen By Mark Thompson Albuquerque: Present at the Birth of Commercial Aviation The Associated Press said it was the first crash on a regular commercial land route. The…
By Rick Hendricks Some astronauts flying on Apollo missions were allowed to take small personal items along. When he went to the moon in 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, a former US Forest Service (USFS) smokejumper, took tiny tree seeds to see how a trip to the moon…
By Rick Hendricks On Friday 4 October 1929, Roy W. Johnson, football coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos, and Tom Popejoy, graduate manager of athletics at the University took in a game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. They were scouting Occidental College in its contest…
