CAMILLE BOHANNON

Singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is
96 today.

     
MIKE GRACIA

President Nixon shakes hands with Premier Chou En-lai of
the People’s Republic of China. Nixon’s trip to China was
to seek a “normalization of relations.”

The Songbird. a twin-engine Cessna T-50 .

The television version (NBC/ABC) starred Kirby Grant as Schuyler 
“Sky” King, an Arizona rancher and airplane pilot, with Gloria
Winters as his niece Penny and Sky’s nephew Clipper, played by
Ron Hagerty. 

The series had strong Western elements, King usually captured
criminals and spies and found lost hikers, though he did so with
the use of his airplane, the Songbird.
 

From left: Kirgy Grant,Gloria Winters and Ron Hagerty.

Original Release: September 16, 1951 – March 8, 1959.

During production of the series.

On January 13, 1982, an Air Florida Boeing 737-222 plunged into
the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people. The
crash, caused by bad weather, took place only two miles from
the White House.

The Air Florida flight took off from Washington National Airport
in Arlington, Virginia, with 74 passengers and 5 crew members
on board. The plane had flown into Washington from Miami in
the early afternoon and was supposed to return to Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida, after a short stop.

Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the
first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and
covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

The Wright Flyer at Carillon Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.