Archive for September 16th, 2022

SHE’S THE FIRST FEMALE AIR GUARD PILOT

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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WSET) — At 20,000 feet in the sky,
history was made as the
first female pilot in the Air National
Guard flew an F-35A Lightning II plane on her inaugural flight.

It took three years of training for 1st Lt. Kelsey Flannery to
reach the achievement, but she had to jump through many
more hoops than just training before she could fly.

The process started when she interviewed in 2019 for the
134th Fighter Squadron, or the "Green Mountain Boys."
Out of hundreds of applicants, Flannery was a member of
the small group selected to continue in the squadron as a
new pilot.

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PROLIFIC CHARACTER ACTOR DEAD AT 95

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  Henry Silva (September 15, 1926 – September 14, 2022)
    
    
    
 

Henry Silva, the rugged New York actor who portrayed heavies
and heroes of various ethnicities in a career highlighted by
turns in A Hatful of Rain, The Manchurian Candidate and
Johnny Cool, has died.

Silva died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture
& Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Silva also played the Draconian commander “Killer” Kane in
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
(The Hollywood Reporter)

 

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DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND ON THIS DAY

UNITED KINGDOM - CIRCA 1970: A used British postage stamp celebrating the 350th Anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers Journey in the Mayflower to the New World, circa 1970.

On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth,
England, bound for the Americas with 102 passengers. The
ship was headed for
Virginia, where the colonists—half
religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been
authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy
weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off
course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims”
reached
Massachusetts
, where they founded the first permanent
European settlement
in New England in late December.


Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical
English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to
escape the jurisdiction of the
Church of England, which
they found corrupt.

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