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TIDBITS® TAKES

FLIGHTby Janet Spencer

On June 25, 1953, Horace C. Boren became the first passenger to fly around the world on commercial airlines in less than 100 hours. Come along with Tidbits as we take flight!

EARLY PIONEERS

• The Wright brothers were not the first people to fly a plane. Seven years prior to their 1903 flight, Samuel Pierpont Langley’s 16-foot (4.8 m) plane travelled three quarters of a mile (1.2 km) and stayed aloft for a minute and a half. The Wright’s claim to fame was that they made the first flight that carried a human. Langley’s plane was unmanned.

• The world’s first fatal airplane crash occurred in 1908 when a propeller broke, sending the aircraft plunging 150 feet (45 m) to earth. The pilot escaped with a broken leg, but the single passenger, Lt. Thomas Selfridge of the U.S. Signal Corps, was killed on impact. The pilot was Orville Wright.

• Many people mistakenly think Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic flight. Actually, he made the first solo transatlantic flight, but many other transatlantic flights were made prior to his May 20-21, 1927 solo flight. For instance, there was Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown who flew a converted Vimy night bomber from Canada to Ireland on June 14 & 15, 1919.

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Across4 Brief chat8 Destructive insect12 Tolkien henchmen14 Astrological Ram16 Days of old17 Frequent prank caller to Moe’s Tavern18 Snicker19 Ostrich cousin20 Put on trial, in the military23 Forrest Gump’s Army friend24 “Nifty!”25 Chowed down26 One of the Gulf States: Abbr.27 Springsteen’s “__ to Run”30 One who hems but doesn’t haw?32 Fruity loaf35 SŽance sounds36 Even-steven37 Indian prince40 “Nerts!”43 Caption under a monkey covering its eyes48 Casual comment51 __ helmet: safari wear52 “__ Yankee Doodle ...”53 Sleeve filler

54 Broadcasts56 Parachute fabric58 End dramatically62 Catches some rays63 Freeze over64 Committed perjury66 “Miss __ Regrets”: Porter song67 Perform brilliantly68 Long-tailed 8-Across69 Approach70 Sinusitis docs71 Darn or baste

Down1 Watch chain2 Bram Stoker’s count3 Nimble circus performer4 Light bulb unit5 Utah city6 One-named Barbadian singer7 Brand that “Nothing runs like”8 British pianist Hess9 “C’est magnifique!”10 “Rock-a-bye baby” spot11 Painful-looking soccer shots13 Puny pencil15 Tuned to, as a radio

dial21 Synagogue leader22 Call __ day23 Defective28 Miner’s discovery29 Wine shop section31 “Dies __”: hymn33 Jones of jazz34 Half of sechs38 Colony crawler39 Sloop in a Beach Boys hit40 Seems to last forever41 Require to detour42 Strong-smelling cleaner44 Oscar-winning

“Casablanca” co-screenwriter Julius or Philip45 Lithuania’s capital46 Comic Coca who worked with Sid Caesar47 PC-to-PC system49 Wharf rodent50 Fuzzy green fruits55 Wealthy, in France57 Southern pronoun59 U.S. ally in WWII60 Follow the game?61 “Planet of the __”65 Margery of nursery rhymes

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EARLY PIONEERS cont’d

• When Capt. Alcock and Lt. Brown flew from Canada to Ireland, they took with them Lucky Jim and Twinkletoes— two stuffed black cats, for luck. However, these “lucky” charms didn’t do much good. First, a super-heated exhaust pipe disintegrated. Then a blinding fog moved in and the plane would have taken a nose dive into the Atlantic if the fog hadn’t cleared 100 feet above the sea. Next, ice formed over the instruments on the wing after a snowstorm and Lt. Brown had to climb out on the wing to chip it off. But in spite of it all, the two men landed safely. Unfortunately, Alcock was killed six months later while flying in a fog in a Paris air show. Brown subsequently swore off flying forever, but his pilot son was killed in World War II.

• President Wilson and other important officials gathered in May of 1918 to witness the take-off of the first airmail flight. The plane was to carry mail from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia. After take-off, the plane somehow went off course and landed in Waldorf, Maryland— which is farther away from Philadelphia than Washington is. The mail was eventually delivered by train.

• In 1938 Howard Hughes filled his plane with ping-pong balls so it would float if it went down over the ocean. He then proceeded to set the speed record for flying around the world.

• On March 2, 1949, a U.S. Superfortress bomber completed the first nonstop flight around the world when it landed at Fort Worth, Texas. The plane traveled 23,452 miles (37,742 km) in 94 hours and 1 minute. It was refueled four times in flight.

• In 1986, the Voyager accomplished the first round-the-world flight without refueling. Cruising at a speed between 65 and 120 mph (104 – 194 km/hr) at an altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 feet (2,500 – 3,000 m) it took pilots Rattan & Yeager 216 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds to travel 25,012 miles (40,252 km).

FAST FACTS ABOUT AIR TRAVEL

• Number of people who traveled by air worldwide in 2012: Over 3 billion

• Number of passengers who died in crashes in 2012: 414

• Number of people killed or injured by bathtubs each year: About 182,000

• Average number of times an airliner is hit by lightning each year: 1

• Number of plane crashes due to lightning strikes since 1963: 0

• Percent of Americans who had flown in 1978, the beginning of airline deregulation: 17%

• Percent who have flown today: 84%

• Percent of Americans who hold a passport: 11

• Number of bags per minute that move through O’Hare Airport’s computerized baggage handling system: 480

• Number of bags lost or mishandled in the U.S. every day: 7,000

• Percent of all lost bags which are returned to their owners within 24 hours: 97

• Total number of lost bags which are never returned to their owners annually: 435,000

• Number of the world’s 20 busiest airports which are located in the U.S.: 6

• Number of flights handled by air traffic controllers at O’Hare Airport (the world’s 3rd busiest airport) per hour at peak periods: 210

• Number of people who work at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois: 35,000

• Amount of dirt moved during the construction of Denver International Airport, in millions of cubic yards: 110

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Famous CanadiansDOUGLAS McCURDY

• Douglas McCurdy, one of Canada’s premier aviators, was born in Nova Scotia in 1886, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1906 with a degree in mechanical engineering. It didn’t take long for his career to ‘take off.’

• In 1907, he joined Alexander Graham Bell’s Aerial Experiment Association. In 1908, he helped Glenn Curtiss set up the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. In 1909, he became the first person in the British empire to fly an aircraft, becoming only the 9th person in history to fly a plane. In 1910, he was the first Canadian to be issued a pilot’s license. And in 1911, he made the first flight from Florida to Cuba, one of his most remarkable achievements.

• From 1909 to 1911 McCurdy participated in flying exhibitions all over North America. Hoping to give the people of Cuba their first glimpse of mechanized flight, officials in Havana offered him $8,000 (worth $100,000 today) if he would be the first to fly from Key West to Havana. Although the 94-mile (151 km) journey doesn’t seem like a big deal today, McCurdy knew that if the flight succeeded, he would set a new world record for distance travelled over open water.

• McCurdy paid a tinsmith to make pontoons to attach to the wings in case he was forced to land at sea. The U.S. navy offered to string six torpedo boats along the line of flight, each puffing out smoke to aid in navigation. They would also be able rescue him if he crashed.

• On a calm day in January of 1911, McCurdy took off from Key West on a short test flight, intending to circle around and land again. But the crowds surged forward, clogging the landing strip. He had no choice but to head out to sea.

• Reaching an altitude of 1,000 feet (304 m) and a speed of 48 mph (77 km/h), he could see the smoke from the funnels of the closest torpedo boat. He could hear their whistles blowing. After two hours, he spied the waterfront of Havana. Crowds thronged the beaches and a cheer went up.

• Suddenly, just a few miles short of his goal, his engine quit as one cylinder after another gave out. He was forced to ditch in the ocean while Cuban citizens gasped in horror. Fortunately, the water was calm and the pontoons worked. The U.S.S. Pauling took only 15 minutes to reach the downed aircraft. McCurdy joked that his feet never even got wet, but the plane was a complete loss. Still, he had managed to set two records: it was the longest flight ever, and it was also the first flight ever taken that left the sight of land.

• McCurdy had taken the precaution of shipping

a second plane to Havana, and without even changing his clothes, he treated onlookers to a flying exhibition. City officials pledged to give McCurdy the prize money even though he hadn’t completed the original flight. At a gala ceremony in his honor, he was handed a fancy envelope. However, when he opened the envelope later, he found it empty. After making discreet inquiries as to how he could get his prize money, he was advised that it would be a touchy and difficult matter. He dropped the issue.

• Douglas McCurdy went on to achieve much more. In 1915, he established the first aviation school in Canada, and was the first manager of Canada’s first airport. He was also instrumental in setting up an aircraft manufacturing company located in Toronto. In 1947, McCurdy was appointed lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, a post he continued until 1952.

• Douglas McCurdy died in 1961, just a few years short of seeing man land on the moon.

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FAST FACTS ABOUT AIR TRAVEL

• Amount of dirt moved during the construction of the Panama Canal, in millions of cubic yards: 330

• Miles of fiber optic cables running through Denver International Airport: 5,300

• Highway miles from Miami to Seattle: 3,362

• Total area of Denver International Airport, in square miles: 53

• Total area of Manhattan Island, in square miles: 22.4

• Number of miles of highways that could be built with the amount of asphalt that was used to build the runways and ramps at Denver International Airport: 900

• Number of times airlines update fares in their computers daily: 250,000

• Number of Americans who are members of a frequent flyer program: 61 million

• Percent of all frequent flyer miles which are

earned on the ground: 47

• Percent of all frequent flyer miles which are never redeemed: 75

• Number of free tickets issued annually due to frequent flyer miles: 12 million

• Number of cubic feet of re-circulated air per minute given to economy-class passengers on some 737 flights: 8

• Number of cubic feet of re-circulated air per minute given to first-class passengers on some 747 flights: 60

• Amount of money saved per aircraft per year on fuel costs by re-circulating air instead of introducing fresh air: $60,000

• Number of airsickness bags used by U.S. airlines each year: 20 million

• Number of collisions between birds and planes every year in the U.S. : 1,400

• Percent of those collisions involving seagulls:

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A LONG LEAP• Goyathlay (meaning ‘one who

yawns’) was an Apache born in 1829. He married and had three kids. In 1851, Mexican soldiers attacked his encampment, killing many, including Goyathlay’s family. Bent on revenge, the survivors went after the Mexicans.

• Goyathlay battled fearlessly and without mercy. The Catholic Mexicans appealed to St. Jerome for help. Afterwards, the remaining Mexicans remarked on the bravery of the Apache warrior. They didn’t know his name, so they gave him a nickname, after the Mexican word for St. Jerome. It stuck.

• Goyathlay, now known by his new nickname, became a military leader of his tribe who led many successful skirmishes. In 1886, tired of constant pursuit, he surrendered. He became a celebrity in his old age, and died in 1909.

• In 1940, a platoon of paratroopers was nervous about the military’s first mass parachute jump scheduled for the following day. To bolster their courage, they went to a theater to

watch a new movie about Goyathlay. Paratrooper Aubrey Eberhardt told his buddies he was going to yell the Apache warrior’s nickname as he bailed out, for inspiration. His buddies decided they would, too. It caught on, and throughout the war, the name was shouted as a battle cry whenever anyone bailed out of a plane.

• Today this war whoop can be heard whenever people jump from high places, such as into the local swimming hole. What was Goyathlay’s Mexican nickname?

Answer: Geronimo.EMERGENCY BAIL-OUTS

• Lt. I. M. Chisov of Russia bailed out of his damaged plane in 1942. With no parachute, he fell 21,980 feet (6.7 km) landing on a steep, snowy mountainside and sliding down. He broke his pelvis and injured his spine but survived and recovered.

• In 1959, a military pilot name Col. Rankin bailed out of his single engine plane when the engines failed at 46,000 feet (14 km). A storm was in progress over the Carolina coast at the

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Q: Nigella was born under our shed. I took her in when she was about 8 months old. Our 15-year-old cat is not happy about that. The cats have had vicious fights, so I’ve had to lock up one in our playroom, especially at night. Unfortunately, when we lock up Luna she pees on a table or on the floor. Sometimes, she just doesn’t use one of our two litter boxes. Spraying her with water for doing this hasn’t helped. The veterinarian says there’s no medical explanation for this behavior. Any advice? We’re desperate. - S.G., Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

A: The fact that Nigella and Luna don’t get along seems to be at the bottom of all this. While there’s no mention of how you introduced the cats in the first place, Dr. Brian Holub, Winn Feline Foundation Board Member and Science Advisor, and Chief Medical Officer of Vet Cor, a national family of veterinary hospitals, suggests you start all over and separate the cats. “To do this effectively, they’ll be a part for several months,” he says. Since Luna was there first, it’s best to keep Nigella in a separate room, or the basement. Do visit and play with Nigella often, and make sure both cats have interesting environments with lots of toys. Holub, of Hingham, MA, says to take something each cat has slept on and place it near the other cat’s food dish (first maybe 6 feet away), gradually moving it closer. Use Feliway diffusers, which emit a copy of a calming pheromone which only cats can detect. Also, ask your veterinarian about a diet from Royal Canin called CALM, which does exactly what the name implies. To stack the odds even more in your favor, ask your veterinarian about fluoxetine (Prozac) to help calm the aggressor. Fluoxetine for dogs is sold as Reconcile, and can be used for cats - a good idea since this chewable pill tastes and smells like liver. Speaking of which, Holub says spraying Luna with water just causes more anxiety, and does not communicate what you DO want Luna to do. When your world has calmed down, put up a double-baby gate or screen door at the entrance to the special room Nigella calls home, and let the cats greet one another as they wish. Don’t push it. However, when they come to the gate/door and act civil toward each other, reward both with tuna or salmon. Over time, they’ll discover when they act friendly they get an amazing treat. “When they do finally come together, having three litter boxes is a better plan than two boxes, and scoop at least once daily,” Holub adds.

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EMERGENCY BAIL-OUTS (cont’d)

time, and he went right through the middle of it. It normally would take a man 13 minutes to fall that far, but Rankin got caught in the updrafts and came to earth 45 minutes later. Fortunately, his parachute opened at 10,000 feet (3 km) and he landed intact. A passing motorist took him to the hospital, where he was treated for frostbite and shock.

• In 1955, Pilot George Smith ejected from his disabled plane. That wouldn’t have been so bad, except that he was in a F100A Super Sabre jet fighter flying at supersonic speed at 35,000 feet (10.5 km). He became the first person to ever bail-out while traveling faster than the speed of sound. He was flying at 777 mph (1,250 km/hr). On the way down, his clothing was shredded, and his socks, helmet, and oxygen mask ripped off. He experienced a deceleration force of 40 G’s, meaning that he weighed an equivalent of 40 times his weight. He was unconscious when he landed in the ocean off the coast of California. By some miracle, there was a boat less than 100 yards away. He was in a coma for a week and spent the next six months in the hospital.

• During World War II, Captain J. H. Hedley was in a plane over Germany when the aircraft took a hit. Hedley was sucked out of the plane at 10,000 feet (3 km). The pilot took evasive action by plummeting in a vertical dive. When the plane pulled out of the dive, Hedley landed unhurt on the tail. He hung on till the plane was brought safely to a landing.

• During the invasion of Normandy in WWII, thousands of dummies were dropped from planes with parachutes along with the real paratroopers in order to mislead the Germans concerning the size of the fighting force.

▶ In 1924, the Stanley Cup was stashed in the trunk of a car when the car got a flat tire. They set the cup on a snowdrift next to the road as they changed the tire. They drove off without it and didn’t remember it until the following day. Fortunately, when they went to retrieve it, they found it in the exact same snowbank where they had left it.

▶ Categories in which Canada ranks dead last worldwide include birth rate, number of cigarette smokers, and population density. Categories in which Canada ranks first worldwide include the consumption of fruit juice, uranium production, and average house size.

▶ The most common place name on the map of Canada is Mount Pleasant.

▶ What animal has thicker fur than any other animal? This sea otter, with between 1.6 and 2.6 million hairs per square centimeter.

▶ Sigmund Freud’s brother, Alexander Freud, fled Germany and ended up in Canada, where he became a furrier in Toronto. Meanwhile, four of Freud’s five sisters died in concentration camps.

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Family Saturdays at VPAG Saturday, June 28th, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm at Vernon Public Art Gallery, 3228 31st Ave, Vernon. Last Saturday of every month VPAG features an art project suitable for little kids and big kids alike. This week, learn to work the printing press and create unique, vibrant coloured prints on paper. Using water soluble materials, learn the process of drawing with pastels on a plexiglass plate, soaking printing paper, and running it through the printing press. What does monoprinting mean? Artists will create one original piece of art that can never be replicated. Suggested ages 5+ Drop-in. Cost: $3/members, $5/non-members More info: [email protected] www.vernonpublicartgallery.com/

Funtastic A&W Musica Fesival 2014 Sunday, June 29th, 2014 from 8pm at Funtastic Music Festival Grounds, 2 Minutes South of Vernon on Hwy 97, Vernon. Celebrate 30 years of Funtastic this June 27-29th! Check out the amazing line up coming to Funtastic this year! Cost: $50 - weekend pass $25 - Day pass. For more info: (250) 558-7756 funtasticsports.ca/

Caetani Centre Summer Live Music Series Sunday, June 29th, 2014 from 2pm at Caetani Cultural Centre, 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon. Caetani Cultural Centre is hosting an amazing Summer Music Series artists scheduled to perform include a songwriter’s showcase featuring - Carolyn Anele, Betty Johnson, Kerry Parks, and Ginger & Rose. Please be advised that parking is limited in the area of Caetani Centre and patrons are encouraged to walk if possible. Vehicles will have to find parking near-by and walk to the grounds. The back gate of the centre will also be opened for entry. Cost: Call (250) 275-1525 for more information: [email protected] www.caetaniculturalcentre.org

Songwriters Circle Sunday, June 29th, 2014 from 2pm at the Caetani Centre, 3401 Pleasant Valley Road, Vernon. Join the Caetani Centre for the Summer Music Series! Each performance will feature a local musical act as well as an artist showcase on the beautiful Caetani grounds. Bring your blankets, folding chairs, and a picnic to enjoy a relaxing evening of music presenting diverse genres throughout the summer. A selection of refreshments will be available for purchase and admission will be by donation. For more info: (250) 275-1525 http://caetaniculturalcentre.org/

Free Park & Play Family Fun @ Polson Park Monday, June 30th, 2014 from 10am at Polson Park, Vernon. Join us this summer for Park & Play! A Free program for Families and children to get out and be active during the summer months. With a focus on sports movement skills we will use games and activities to get you moving, laughing and having Fun! :

Lumby Canada Day CelebrationsTuesday, July 1, 2014, from 10:30am at White Valley Community Park, 1875 Glencaird Street, Lumby. Come out and celebrate Canada day in Lumby! Tons of activities for kids: bicycle decorating contest, face painting, spray park, salmon trail presentation, free swim at the Lumby Pool (1:30-4pm) and an outdoor movie at 9pm. As well as a singing of “O Canada”, free Canada Day cake, concession, Lumby & District Wildlife Association raffle, and public markets.

Summer Reading Club Launch PartyWednesday, July 2, 2014 from 10:30am at Okanagan Regional Library, 2800 30th Ave, Vernon. See the jugglers, learn about contests, get your reading records vernonlibrarykids.wordpress.com/summer/summer-8-12/

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