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Op-ed: Nebraska has a $201 million opportunity. I don’t want us to waste it
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101-Word Short Story Contest 2023
Editor's Note Here’s how the 101-Word Short Story Contest adds up. This year, the total number of entries approached 175. Of those, more than 60 made the final cut according to the seven judges after the first round of reading. Those same seven judges met on one morning to reach a conclusion on the three stories that stood apart from the others, as well as the 30 or 40 that would fit in the space provided.
From hoses to booms and the future of US military refueling aircraft
A KC-46A Pegasus taxis in at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., in July 2021. (Terry Atwell/U.S. Air National Guard) It’s hard to imagine refueling aircraft with buckets and hoses, but prior to World War II, that was how it was done. Prewar aerial refueling attempts were primitive experiments until a modernized process was introduced in the late 1940s. The U.S. military began the refueling transformation with surplus bombers, including the KB-29 and KB-50.
What Happened to History's Most Famous Hijacker?
A Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner awaits refueling at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on November 24, 1971. Among its passengers is a mysterious hijacker claiming to have a bomb and demanding parachutes and $200,000 in cash. AP Photo John Fredrickson Fifty years later, mystery still surrounds the hijacking of a 727 over the Pacific Northwest—the only unsolved air piracy incident in commercial aviation history.
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Former Rhinelander vet recounts Vietnam War experience
On Thailand base, runs into ‘hometown icon’ By John Fredrickson Special contributor Editor’s note: The author shared with the Star Journal this Vietnam War oral history he drafted for the EAA in Oshkosh. Mr. Fredrickson is a 1969 graduate of Rhinelander High School. It was 2:30 am local time and I was lap-belted into a taught red-fabric sidewall seat which, like benches, lined both sides of the lumbering Lockheed C-130 transport plane droning through an inky-black tropical sky.
Barbie Ferreira Just Got A Mullet, So That Makes, Like, Every Celebrity Now
2020 needs to SLOW DOWN â we're but nine days in and already on our third mullet! The '80s called, they want their hairstyle back! For real, though, between Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, and now Barbie Ferreira's new mullet, I'm starting to think I might need to book a haircut. Somebody, please stop me before it's too late. If you haven't been active on the 'Gram as of late, you might not have noticed how many of your face celebs have been rocking modern-day mullets.
The Kansas City B-25 Factory
Throughout the 1930s, airplanes were generally built one at a time, which limited output. Automobiles, however, were mass-produced on assembly lines, and when war came, the nation turned to car manufacturers to help speed up the process. In 1940, with Europe embroiled in war, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt requested that “this nation [gear] up to the ability to turn out at least 50,000 planes a year,” and asked Congress for a significant increase in defense spending.
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