In celebration of womens History Month about the women of Floyd Bennett field we will talk to you a little bit. Its one of the more significant sites in the history of aviation. It is a story that doesnt get told to much anymore, but in its day, the aviators who flew at Floyd Bennett field during the 1930s were as big of celebrities as anybody you might think of. You know, you start with the age of charles lindbergh, 1927, and really, right up until world war ii, these folks were advancing Aviation Technology at an incredible rate. When you think that the first airplane flight was in 1903 with the wright brothers, we are at the dawn of the jet age. We go from a time when it was perfectly common to have biplane wood and fabric airliners to allmental monoplane airliners capable of crossing the country at 200 miles an hour carrying 22 passengers. Thats a leap in just 10 years. Its really quite a remarkable story. The women aviators of that time were very much a part of the story. Without
Chevy malibu. Taken from the redwood estates. The men has crashed and ditched a white sedan and a minivan and a sharks jersey and green beanie and black and white sneakers and took a knife. The residents toll ktvu they are still too flustered to talk but from the encounter that investigators got their first good description of the suspect. A thin latino man in his 20s or 30s about 59 with groom facial hair. Authorities want people to be on the lookout for that malibu but they dont know how long he traveled. We have involved all agencies and the suspect is determined. You know he is willing to brave the elements and the terrain and so you know it is a challenge but it is a change we hope to meet and bring him into custody. Now authorities are not saying which department the Law Enforcement vehicle belonged to. Only that there was no Police Scanner and no weapons inside. Authorities on the lookout for this vehicle and for the Bank Robber Still at large. We will send it back to you. Ted a
Know how far he may have traveled. He has been willing to brave the elements and the terrain. And so it is a challenge but a challenge we hope to meet and bring him into custody. Residents are shaken and taking extra precautions until he is caught. I have no idea if he could still be. He could have been in the shed. I took my dog around the yard and through my house before i let my daughter go in the house. It is better to be home with my family than be at work and thinking about what could potentially happen. Again a Massive Police presence here in san jose. Right now as officers move in on the suspect. My colleague is headed to the scene and we will continue to update this story throughout the night. Reel send it back to you. This is developing and do we know anything about the scene, whether the suspect is in a house or a business or anything of that nature . We dont at this point. All we had heard is that they were able to track the Law Enforcement vehicle to what i think is a neig
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The space history department. You can join the conversation, theyll take your phone calls and emails and tweets. The 40th anniversary of the smithsonian air and space museum, live in evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes, we visited the National Portrait gally comment rating the Amelia Earhart disappearance, she was called lady lindy and the mystery surrounding her loss continues to fascinate americans today. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Im the curator of photographs here at the gallery. When visitors come to the portrait gallery and showing them around the exhibition, i often ask them, what do you know about Amelia Earhart . We know she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic and we also know that she disappeared tragically in 1937. Thats what most visitors understand about Amelia Earhart. What this exhibition hopes to do is to reveal more of the complexity o