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None here yet either. That might change.

May 21, 1927, New York Times
Early in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Hazelhurst Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, he was sighted later in the day flying over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. From St. Johns, Newfoundland, he headed out over the Atlantic, using only a magnetic compass, his airspeed indicator, and luck to navigate toward Ireland. The flight had captured the imagination of the American public like few events in history. Citizens waited nervously by their radios, listening for news of the flight. When Lindbergh was seen crossing the Irish coast, the world cheered and eagerly anticipated his arrival in Paris. A frenzied crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered at Le Bourget Field to greet him. When he landed, less than 34 hours after his departure from New York, Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In this uncertain time here in America, Lindbergh's triumph is welcome news indeed!

Truly, a magnificent achievement. An epic of technical skill, courage, and endurance!

(For a day, French newspapers forget about Palawan)

Reminds us just how behind we were back then in 1927. Also reminds us that we've come a long ways in less than 80 years.

I still think the space program is behind by at least 15 years though.

More like 30 years behind. Ever since we turned the remaining Saturn V's into museum pieces and built the world's most expensive pickup trucks!

Well the pickup trucks do a good job....not the job they should be doing, but a good job.

What we need is for the shuttles to be shuttles....leave them in space to shuttle people and supplies from one base to another. Bring back the large rocket or a larger shuttle concept, and get this show moving again.

We went off track around the time they let Skylab fall.

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We went off track around the time they let Skylab fall.

IMHO we went off track before that, when they cancelled the last three Apollo missions...

Of course the question is, can we ever recoop the loss of time, or are we stalled for good?

NASA does not seem to be effective anymore. The Russians need financing badly. I'm not sure what state the European Space Agency is in anymore. And the rest of the world is shooting off rockets at best. There is another group launching a prototype solar sailer at the end of the month. We have a conclusion to the X-Prize last year. Maybe its time to privatize space? Like with the airplane, maybe the civilians will be daring and (do stupid things,) get us moving off this planet.

We can't prove we are or aren't alone in the galaxy yet, but we do know there are other planets....and water is possible on other planets.....so.....if there is a lot of water and an intelligent...yet aggressive species...there will be other worlds with navies and battleships.

Not just going for a space navy here....might want to take notes on things we didn't try in the oceans.

How about underwater stations?

The Shogun congratulates Mr. Lindbergh on becoming the second person to cross the Atlatic, during the first official attempt to cross the Atlantic.
:-)

1921

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Taisho 8 Nen 5 Getsu 3 Nichi (May 3,1921)
After a long stay at Coldmere, the Japanese delegation has left Coldmere. There still has been no sign of Oonishi Manzo in Coldmere, who was last seen flying circles around Lady Liberty.

XD

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I'm assuming most of those 200 airships are non-rigids, correct?

nope, they are rigids of between 70.000 and 120.000 cu.m. Zeppelin would never build blimps