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Articles by Jim Trautman
How a Rare 'Flying W' Airplane Supplied Uranium for the Manhattan Project
Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada The Bellanca Aircruiser undergoes a test assembly in April 2021 at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada’s Winnipeg facility. The Eldorado Radium Silver Express, a restored Bellanca Aircruiser, will soon be on view at a new museum in western Canada. The single-engine Bellanca Aircruiser cargo and passenger airplane was designed by Giuseppe Bellanca, who had built Italy’s first aircraft and emigrated to the United States in 1911.
Transporting Troops And Evacuating Babies, Pan Am Was in Vietnam From Beginning To End
The history of Pan American World Airways’ involvement in the Vietnam War began decades before the last Boeing Jumbo 747 departed Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport on April 24, 1975, as the city was about to fall to communist forces. It began in the 1930s during the events leading to World War II. After several meetings with President Franklin D.
How a Rare 'Flying W' Airplane Supplied Uranium for the Manhattan Project
The Bellanca Aircruiser undergoes a test assembly in April 2021 at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada’s Winnipeg facility. Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada Jim Trautman The Eldorado Radium Silver Express, a restored Bellanca Aircruiser, will soon be on view at a new museum in western Canada. The single-engine Bellanca Aircruiser cargo and passenger airplane was designed by Giuseppe Bellanca, who had built Italy’s first aircraft and emigrated to the United States in 1911.
Transporting Troops And Evacuating Babies, Pan Am Was in Vietnam From Beginning To End
U.S. soldiers prepare to board a Pam Am Boeing 707 circa 1967. During the Vietnam War, Pan Am transported cargo and troops to Vietnam. One of the airline’s most appreciated jobs was flying troops from Vietnam to rest and recuperation destinations. The R&R runs, begun in March 1966, escalated to 18 flights per day.
Operation Highjump: 1946-47 Expedition to Explore Antarctica From the Air
A U.S. Coast Guard Sikorsky HNS-1 helicopter attached to Operation Highjump returns from a survey of South Pole waters. National Archives Jim Trautman In a combined effort not long after World War II, the U.S. Navy employed ships, airplanes and helicopters to explore and map Antarctica’s frozen reaches.
Famed doctor Tom Dooley secretly helped CIA
Dr. Tom Dooley (right) with Cardinal Francis Spellman in 1960. Dooley, a Catholic, worked closely with church officials as he was secretly involved in a CIA disinformation campaign. ©Topfoto Jim Trautman October 2020 Throughout the mid-to-late 1950s, Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley III was widely celebrated as embodying the great and unselfish good of American aid.
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