Today in history: Pan Am Flight 103 was a transatlantic flight from London to New York that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. A bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated while the Boeing 747 was cruising at 31,000 feet, causing the aircraft to break apart midair. All 259 people on board were killed, along with 11 people on the ground, making it one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in aviation history. Investigators eventually determined the attack was an act of terrorism linke

-History Of The Lindy Hop Dance- On May 21st 1927 the Lindy Hop dance was publicly introduced to the world. The Lindy hop is an African American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City. On that date, the Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis airplane completed the first transatlantic flight by air, the Newspaper reported “Lindy Hops the Atlantic” and the dance style adopted the headline. The dance has evolved since then with the jazz music of that time and was very popular during the swing era of

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Rocket Sled Riders In the mid-1940s, Air Force flight surgeon and physician Col John Stapp began studying the effects of high speed travel on the human body. Stapp and other test subjects rode in rocket-powered sleds which could reach 600 mph in six seconds, then slammed to a stop. One of Col Stapp’s volunteers, MSgt William Rhea, made fourteen sled runs and volunteered for repeated exposures to high g-force levels. Airman Second Class Alton Yates volunteered for sixty-five rides to show the hum