The U.S. Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin construction of an Air Force Academy, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on 1 April of that year. The 
legislation established an advisory commission to determine the site of the new 
school.  Among the panel members were Charles Lindbergh, and Lieutenant
General Herbert R. Harmon, who later became the Academy’s first superintendent. A
total of 582 sites were considered and the winner was Colorado Springs, Colorado. It
was announced by the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott in June of 1954. 

Pictured above is an airship under construction during 1909 – 1910 by the Preble-Rekar Airship company of Portland, Oregon. The rigid dirigible was to be 250 feet long and 24 feet in diameter. It was never completed. 

Famed country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden,Tennessee. The
plane, piloted by her manager Randy Hughes, flew into severe weather, and according
to Cline’s wristwatch, crashed at 6:20 p.m. in a forest outside of Camden, Tennessee,
90 miles from the destination. Patsy along with singers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Hughes (shown above) died instantly from their injuries. Throughout the
night, reports of the missing plane flooded the radio airwaves. Since her death at the
height of her career, Patsy Cline has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century. She was 30 .

September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963

Actor Robert Conrad is best known for his role in the CBS-TV series The
Wild Wild West (1965 – 1969) , in which he played the sophisticated Secret
Service agent James T. West, and his portrayal of World War II flying ace Pappy Boyington in the NBC-TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976 – 1978). He was
a recording artist of pop/rock songs in the early 1960s as Bob Conrad before
he started acting. He currently hosts a weekly 2 hour national radio show
called “The PM Show with Robert Conrad” heard on CRN Digital Talk Radio.  
 

Robert Conrad with co-star Ross Martin (left) 

Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep

George Kennedy has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is best known as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967),for which he won an Academy Award, airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films with the late Leslie Nielsen (1988,1991, and 1994).

George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke

 
George in Airport 

George Kennedy (left) with Leslie Nielsen in Naked Gun