Posted on 01/02/2006 12:53:59 PM PST by WKB
Thanks for posting this. I just knew you would like it. ;) Interesting replies on this thread, too.
True. In a salt dome near Hattiesburg, IIRC.
My grandmother used to live near a place called the Devil's Punch Bowl in England. According to wikipedia there are at least six places called the Devil's Punch Bowl.
Hey - wait a minute.
I didn't see anything about MSU, Starkville, or even the cow with the window in it's stomach.
I had two ancestors (that I know of) from Mississippi who fought in the Civil War. Both of them made it out alive. Must have been good stock.
artificial limbs for WBTS vets was largest budget line item during years after war
Oh! This is GREAT!
I'm going to save it!
"52. Mississippi University for Women graduate, Ms. Neill James, of Meridian, authored The Petticoat Vagabond, and also introduced the silk industry to Ajijic, Mexico. In 1983 she was inducted into The International Who's Who of Intellectuals in Cambridge, England."
She was my great aunt. ;o)
I didn't see the Key Brothers mentioned.
They invented air-to-air refueling in 1935.
They, also, still hold the world record for sustained flight in a conventional aircraft.
This record for ANY aircraft wasn't broken until the space shuttle's first flight.
Their plane, the Ole Miss, resides in the Smithonian Air and Space Museum.
"At 12:32 p.m. on June 4, 1935, brothers Al and Fred Key lifted off the grass strip of Meridian's airport in an effort to break the world record for sustained flight. Working with other Meridianites such as A.D. Hunter and James Keeton, the Key brothers devised a workable method of air-to-air refueling in order to attempt this feat.
The record they established in their 27 days aloft, totaling 653 hours and 34 minutes, remains unbroken in conventional flight. Not until orbiting space labs did man stay aloft longer. When they landed at 6:06 p.m. on July 1, 1935, before a crowd of between 30,000 and 40,000 fans gathered at the airfield, the Meridian airport was renamed "Key Field" in their honor, the name we bear today.
In setting this record they flew an estimated 52,320 miles - or twice the distance around the earth at an average speed of about 80 mph. The engine in their Curtis-Robbins monoplane, the "Ole Miss", had made some 61 million revolutions "without a bobble," as reported by Meridian educator and writer Stephen Owen in his books "The Flying Key Brothers and Their Flight to Remember". Some 300 gallons of oil were used and they consumed 6,000 gallons of gas. Flying in shifts, the men maintained the plane by walking outside on a frightening catwalk that went around the sides of the engine.
Both brothers served in World War II, each piloting and contributing to the design of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress bombers.
The flight of Al and Fred Key proved that air-to-air refueling worked! The ability to remain in flight was limited only by the endurance of the flight crew and the structural and mechanical stability of the aircraft. The U.S. Air Force continued to refine and improve on the basic principal that was developed in Meridian in 1935. Today practically all military aircraft are capable of being refueled in flight. The KC-135R provides this service for all of the U.S. Military and its allies."
http://www.msmeri.ang.af.mil/HTML/airrefueling.htm
Pics at the link.
Thank you!
I found this one to be very interesting.
Though, I doubt it's there, anymore. ;o(
But, I am sure they will rebuild.
"111. The Pass Christian Yacht Club, formed in Pass Christian during 1849, holds the distinction of being the second oldest yacht club in North America. The oldest is the New York Yacht Club in New York City, organized in 1844."
and almost every white Mississippian and a few blacks too come directly from that ancestry
yankees will never understand the South till they get that clue
What are the odds?
How could I NOT have pinged you to this thread? And I'm SO glad that I did. LOL
It was like "hallowed" ground to a blues fan like me.
We actually met the mayor at "Ground Zero" one of the blues bars in town.
2) Why should you want Yankees to know this? Do you want to stigmatize the South, by keeping the CIVIL WAR "alive" still? Outside of the most staunch of Southern regionalists, everyone else has moved on and nobody else spends every waking moment internalizing and obsessing over the CIVIL WAR!
Your side lost....get over it already!
I warned you ;)
Please don't leave until WD replies!!
Ummmmmmmmmmmm...you want me to stay on this thread, until wd answers me, do you?
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