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A preview of a brand new podcast all about the United States Air Force in the guise of the Mighty Eighth - and their role in Britain during the war. And as a prelude I’m going to chat with Johann, one of the hosts.

More great unpublished history!

Mighty Eighth website
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Book mention in the show:
Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive over Europe
Paul Bingley and Mike Peters

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They were lost and hundreds of miles off course over the Pacific.  The fuel supply was evaporating quickly and the decision was made to ditch the plane in the water.

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Steve’s WWII Book, Shot Down

Steve’s WWII Book, Shot Down

In this episode, we meet Ed Hays, a B17 tail gunner who in 1998 traveled to Germany to meet the German fighter pilot who shot his plane down and who, in turn, was shot down by Ed's crew. But first a couple of announcements. I'll be exhibiting at the Greenwood Lake 2021 Air Show August 13 to 15, which is always a spectacular event. If you attend, be sure to stop by and say hello. And over the Labor Day Weekend, September 3 thru 6, I'll be exhibiting at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum Air Fest in Wildwood, New Jersey. Also, please check out the new Myfatherstankbattalion page on Facebook and give it a like. Now, back to Ed Hays and his amazing story.

LIMON, Colo. (KDVR) — The sign that greets you on the edge of this Eastern Plains town promises that Limon is “open for business.” That includes a small petroleum company on the west edge of town, now in its 74th year, with the same boss today as the day the business started.

Don Morrison is 95 years old. But you’ll still find him behind his desk at D-J Petroleum, Inc., running the company as president. It’s the kind of leadership he may have first learned way back in World War II, where he was the nose gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, carrying out bombing missions over Germany. He was part of the United States Army Air Corps 447th Bombardment Group.

“We flew into Brandenburg, Germany toward the end of the war, and we were just bombarded from every direction. I don’t know how we ever got out of there,” Morrison told FOX31. He was just a teenager when he left Limon to serve his country.

When he returned, he started his petroleum company. A few years later, he started a life with his wife Helen. They’ve been married 70 years.

“And we’ve just had a very happy marriage,” Helen Morrison told FOX31.

Most everyone in this town of 2,000 knows Don, and many know about his heroics during World War II. Last year, one of Morrison’s employees decided to pay tribute to him. They reached out to a group of local artists called “Some Girls and a Mural,” and commissioned a painting on one of D-J Petroleum’s large white fuel tanks on the edge of town.

“(The employee) approached us when we were working on another mural, and asked us to do a surprise mural for Don, and he was telling us the story of Don’s mission, and it just, immediately we gravitated toward it and we thought this would be a fun one to bring alive. And just share a piece of his history with the community,” said Kayla Ravenkamp, one of the artists who completed the painting.

Now, every time you drive into town, you see that painting of a cloudy sky over Germany, and a fleet of B-17 aircraft helping save the day. The mural spells out Morrison’s name and dates of service. 

To this town, Don has always been a hero. To his wife, same thing.

“And I’m proud of his career, he’s been very successful,” said Helen Morrison.

Dr. Rebecca Grier joins Tim Keirnan for a wordcast episode about Fitts' Law and Fitts' List. Who was Paul Fitts and how did this legendary psychologist impact our design professions to this day?

In a beautiful bit of synchronicity, Wired magazine published this excellent article about Fitts and Chapanis solving a design problem on the B-17 Flying Fortress during WWII.:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/

Dr. Grier recommends the following links to use in our understanding of Fitts' work:
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/fitts-law-tracking-users-clicks

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-information-capacity-of-the-human-motor-system-Fitts/634c9fde5f1c411e4487658ac738dcf18d98ea8d

https://fampeople.com/cat-paul-fitts

https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Fitts

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10111-011-0188-1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351978915006423

https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/paul-m-fitts-XSLBZF59k5

You can find Dr. Grier at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-grier-ux/

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Summary
125 Max discusses the NTSB preliminary report on the B-17 crash. And we talk about propeller safety and a number of accidents in which people were killed or dismembered by a propeller. Propeller accidents are more common than you might think, and many happen at night when a spinning prop is almost impossible to see. NEVER let anyone in or out of a plane while the engine is still running.  

News Stories

• New Details of B-17 Crash Emerge
• Flight Operated Entirely by Women Flies 120 Young Girls to NASA
• NASA’s First All-Electric Aircraft Delivered for Testing
• R22 Converted For Unmanned Crop Dusting
• Embraer Tests Autonomous Aircraft
• New Owner For Stratolaunch
• Chipper Aerospace Up For Sale
• Airports are our Biggest Problem: AOPA Australia
• Mexico Welcomes Pilots Flying Under BasicMed
• Pilot retiring after 35 years gives wings to boy who has Down syndrome

Mentioned in the Show
Aviation News Talk Listener Meetup - Oct 30 5:30 PM
EAA Chapter 1292 Food Flight
Propeller Accident - Key West, FL
Key West Accident - Miami Herald
Hartzell Propeller on Propeller Strikes
Ohio skydiving employee dies in propeller accident
United Airlines Employee Struck By Plane Propeller
Louisiana Woman Struck by Propeller
Inside Edition Video: What Life's Like for Woman Who Lost Arm
NTSB Report: Hayward Airport Propeller Accident
NTSB Report: Nut Tree Airport Propeller Accident

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124 B-17 Crash, General Aviation Accidents, Nall Report, and CBD Oil + GA News

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Summary
124 We discuss the B-17 crash and possible causes. Max summarizes GA accident data from the AOPA Nall report. GA accidents have declined over the last ten years, and the fatal accident rate has dropped substantially Landings are the most common accident type. Experimental aircraft accidents have declined, but still have accidents at a higher rate than other aircraft. A listener asks about CBD Oil.  

News Stories

• NTSB investigating B-17 for Engine Trouble
• FAA completes final ADS-B milestone
• The Bahamas Needs You
• Policy Freeing DPEs of Geographic Limits Extended
• FAA Wants Action On Declining Pilot Skills
• FAA Investigating Money Drop
• ForeFlight, AOPA Offer Monthly Prizes
• CBP tracks ultralight across border, arrests pilot
• Plane Crashes Into Ski Lift Cable

Mentioned in the Show
ForeFlight Frequent Filer contest
Patty Wagstaff Banquet
NTSB Aviation Database
NASA ASRS database
28th Joseph T Nall Report
Grand Canyon National Park Special Flight Rules Area
AOPA's David Tulis on Grand Canyon
Beaumont Hotel Airport, Beaumont, KS
Beaumont Hotel, Beaumont, KS
Petition to Eliminate VOR Logging Requirement
Add Your Comment Supporting VOR Logging Petition
Aviation News Talk #5 on Deadly Distractions
FAA Aeromedical Advisory on CBD Oil - page 5

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In this episode we’re going to be looking at the story of Howard Snyder, a B-17 ‘Flying Fortress’ pilot, flying with the US 8th air force from Britain. Through letters Howard wrote to his family, and exhaustive research, his son Steve Snyder has pieced together the remarkable story of his father, and what happened after he was shot down in Belgium.

You can find more about Steve Snyder and his father, Howard, at stevesnyderauthor.com

Donna Miller learned to fly in South Korea while working as a civilian for the Air Force. She flew general aviation in Europe while working for Jeppesen in the Frankfurt office, then transferred to Jeppesen in Denver and helped Elrey Jeppesen catalog his memorabilia.  He gave her a piece of fabric from the original Wright Flyer, and she had it made into a necklace that Eileen Collins took to space when they docked with MIR.

She had the honor of flying Neil Armstrong to Kitty Hawk for the centennial of flight celebration in 2003. She gave the necklace to one of the pilots who did the recreation flight, so it went from Kitty Hawk to space and back to Kitty Hawk 100 years later.

She also had the honor of knowing Louie Zamperini very well for the last 8 years of his life and traveled with him on several occasions to speaking engagements.

In addition to her job as an airline pilot, she also flies  WWII bombers (B-17, B-24, B-25) for the Collings Foundation.

#34 The Ever wondered why we get fat and what we can do about it. This is a fascinating conversation we have today we are joined by Dr Kieron Rooney, a Researcher in Metabolic Biochemistry.

Kieron is a fun, down to earth guy who gives us an incite to what is going in the world of nutritional study from an academic perspective. So if you are wondering why there could be so much disagreement out there on the world of nutrition, then watch this as Kieron sheds some light on what's really going on!

In this episode we talk about:-

• Kieron's personal journey of weight loss
• How scientific research actually works!
• Why we are getting fatter and sicker as a nation
• Understanding our own carbohydrate tolerances
• The relationship between sugar and cancer cells
• And much much more…

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