Podcast appearances and mentions of douglas aircraft

Paul Hilliard, President of Badger Oil Corporation, has led a wonderful life of generosity and love of community that provides a humbling lesson in being a good steward of God's resources. At 99 years of age, he is sharp and insightful, a true testament to his wisdom and vitality. Paul was 17 when he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps during his Senior year in high school in February 1943, quitting school when he received permission from his mother to join the war effort. He trained to be a gunner, handling machine guns in the back of Douglas SBD Dauntless (Scout Bomber by Douglas Aircraft) planes in air missions conducted in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. SBD was jokingly referred to as “Slow But Deadly.” He flew 45 combat missions and was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in addition to receiving the Air Medal with six bronze stars.  Following his service, Hilliard earned his law degree from the University of Texas before beginning a career in the oil and gas industry. He credits the GI Bill for the opportunities it afforded him and so many other servicemen who would not have otherwise been able to obtain an education. Hilliard exemplifies the selfless spirit and pride of our WWII generation of heroes, as well as the successful ingenuity of a veteran oil and gas entrepreneur.  Known for his self-effacing wit and ability to achieve in spite of a hardscrabble upbringing in Wisconsin, Hilliard has been a successful independent operator and owner of Badger Oil Corporation since 1955 and has seen fit to use his success in business to help others in need. Awarded the Civic Cup in 2003 and the esteemed national Horatio Alger Award in 2009, Paul has also been active in statewide associations working to improve the oil and gas industry, business, and civic endeavors. Paul has also been active in statewide associations working to improve the oil and gas industry, business, and civic endeavors.  In 2015, he received the Circle of Honor Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. UL Press released Dauntless: Paul Hilliard in WWII and a Transformed America in 2023. Written by Rob Citino with Ken Stickney and Lori Ochsner, the book documents some of the most fascinating decades in American history: the impact of World War II, the importance of post-war social and economic changes, and the development of the oil industry from the 1950s to today. “Dauntless is a compelling narrative tracing Paul Hilliard's life experiences during the Great Depression, from farm life in Wisconsin's Dust Bowl to his distinguished service as a Marine in World War II, his education through law school, and a long and successful business in the oil fields. Paul's lifelong philanthropy and his passion for education and the lessons of WWII make him an inspiration. His life is the Horatio Alger story. He is, and always be, one of my heroes.”—Boysie Bollinger Paul has been a generous benefactor in causes to help at-risk children learn to read so that they can overcome poverty as he did.  He and his late wife, Lulu, provided $5 million dollars in seed money to start the Paul and Lulu Hilliard Art Museum at UL – Lafayette. Paul has served as a National WWII Museum trustee, and he and his wife, Madlyn, have been two of the Museum's most active advocates and supporters. They have provided transformative support for several Museum initiatives, including acquisition and restoration of artifacts, collection of oral histories, and education programs. In September 2018, Hilliard accepted the position of Board Chair of the museum, focusing on the completion of the its $400 million campus expansion. For more information, visit https://www.nationalww2museum.org, a treasure trove of thousands of oral histories and hundreds of thousands of photos depicting the WWII experience. Paul ended the interview by sharing his gratitude for being born in the United States of America.  He spoke of a favorite quote by Cicero: “Gratitude...

www.livinglabyrinthsforpeace.org The spirit behind Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a 501c(3) a non profit organization, is artist, poet and teacher, Sandra Wasko-Flood. She gives great thanks for the gifts she received from her space scientist father, whose parents came from Russia; and her elementary school teacher and socialite mother, whose parents emigrated from Prague, Czechoslovakia. Born in Flushing Long Island, NYC, her dad was weather forecasting for Pan Am and got a job in Lisbon, Portugal, where she attended first grade. Returning to the U.S. after three years, they moved from coast to coast, he always getting a better job. When her dad was weather forecasting for Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles, she got her BA in English from UCLA and a Secondary teaching credential from the California State College in Los Angeles. Her first job was teaching English at Nobel Jr. High School. After three years, she quit teaching after being encouraged to become a full time artist by Gordon Nunes at UCLA. Rather than getting an art degree, she chose the right teachers with which to study wherever she lived. In 1969, she married Michael T. Flood, PhD, inorganic chemist, whose first job was with the National Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She so loved the Brazilian culture, especially the Carnival. She did portraits of the Brazilian people. Taking private lessons from Marie Augusta Kaufman, she discovered she liked print making the best. Wherever she lived she found the best print making teachers with which to study and was introduced to the new Safe Etching methods by Keith Howard. She gave lessons in safe etching and monotype printmaking in her Alexandria, VA studio. Her art portrayed major archetypes: owl and snake, masks, totems, cycles, spirals labyrinths, and the peacock through whose eyes we see the creation of the universe. Her recent book: “The Labyrinth Path to Light and Peace” includes lots of poems and art having to do with Peace among People, Animals, Nature and the Universe. Having written poetry since a child, she is now working on an anthology of her poetry.In 1981, she became a founding member of the Washington Women's Arts Center, and in 1985, she founded the Art Spirit Group in Washington DC, which still meets until this day to discuss the relationship between art and spirituality. In 1991, she sat in the center of the Great Kiva at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Sitting in the Great Kiva, she envisioned ceremonial dancers from all races, cultures and beliefs, peacefully ascending an underground spiral to do a labyrinth dance in the kiva, and ascending a spiral under a space dome to the sky. This visionary experience led her to a book by Sig Lonegren: Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses.In 1998, she become a founding member of the International Labyrinth Society. She went on to create an interactive labrinth art/technology installation, “Dance of the Labyrinth,” symbolizing a peaceful dance of opposites for our times. Here visitors experience computer programmed light sequences: walk on light box images, see rotating wheels and pillars, and phosphorescent mulch glowing like moonlight. When she asked this labyrinth where it wanted to be, it told her four times in the U.S. Capitol. This led her to talk with Barbara Wolanin, the Curator of the Capitol Collection and to put a Labyrinths Demonstration for Inner Peace, the first project of the International Labyrinth Society on Capitol Hill in the year 2000. For two weeks, people from all over the world walked labyrinths for peace. In the year 2005, she formed the non-profit Living Labyrinths for Peace.

Jim Tygart was a World War II veteran who drove a jeep during the D-Day invasion and other campaigns before being wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.The D-Day invasion launched on June 6, 1944. On the next day, Tygart went ashore at Omaha Beach, Normandy. It was in Belgium, after the start of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, that he was wounded.  The explosion, which destroyed his jeep, knocked him to the ground and left him with a serious leg wound. Tygart was awarded the Purple Heart and went on to a career as an aircraft instrument mechanic with Douglas Aircraft and later American Airlines. He was presented the French Legion of Merit medal by the French Consulate.Jim was 102 when he died May 24, 2022.As you listen to Jim tell his story you will feel close to the battlefields he experienced, heard on the podcast and oral history website VoicesOfOklahoma.com.

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

JUST PLAIN BILL?JUST AS I AM by Bill Withers (Sussex, 1971)Bill Withers was uncategorizable. Was he a soul artist? A folk musician? A blues singer? He certainly was no pop star. He picked a nylon string guitar, for God's sakes! But, even so, he was one of the most covered songwriters who ever plied the craft. His appeal was universal. There hasn't been any aspiring singer, of any genre, who hasn't tried to put over Lean on Me or Ain't No Sunshine. Bill belonged to all of us. Just As I Am was Bill's debut album, produced by one of the premier soul artists, Booker T Jones, but in it he covers folk avatar Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin', and Paul McCartney's Let it Be.  Listen to Grandma's Hands and you can hear the guitar of rock icon Steven Stills. The MG's Duck Dunn plays some of the bass parts, but so does Chris Etheridge of The Flying Burrito Brothers.Withers narrates part of his story himself in the cut Do it Good. The son of a miner from Slab Fork, West Virginia, Bill worked as a machinist for Douglas Aircraft, IBM, and Ford - all the while sending out demo tapes until Clarence Avant signed him to Sussex, where he hit it with Ain't No Sunshine at the age of 32 - way over the hill by pop star standards. He's pictured on the label holding his lunch pail, dressed in a t shirt and jeans - and when he first hit pay dirt, he refused to quit his job, saying that the music business was “fickle”. Is it ever! The common touch was always part of Bill's magic. And, of course, an uncanny talent and instinct, not to mention a warm baritone that poured like honey out of America's car radios.When he was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 he was characteristically understated when he said: “I don't think I've done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia.” Neither do we.

Bob McCormack was one of Tulsa, Oklahoma's premier photographers. A native of Pompey, New York (just a few miles east of Syracuse), Bob's family moved to Lathrop, Missouri, while Bob was still a child.Bob came to Tulsa during the great depression. He spent his first night in Tracy Park. The next morning he went to the Tulsa World, where Eugene Lorton hired him immediately and sent him to Claremore because Will Rogers' plane had crashed, killing Rogers and Wiley Post.Celebrities, it so happened, were always McCormack's favorite subjects. When movie theaters were still showplaces, a number of movie stars came through Tulsa for premieres and promotional tours. McCormack met them at the train station and backstage. He took a job at Douglas Aircraft as its chief photographer. Four years later, he opened a studio of his own. His work has appeared in national publications such as “Life,” “Collier's,” “Sports Afield,” “National Geographic,” and many others.He covered the opening of Philbrook Museum in 1939 for the Associated Press.Bob McCormack died April 4, 2003. Bob's son John became a very accomplished photographer and tells the story of his father on the oral history website VoicesOfOklahoma.com.

Humans have probably considered flight since they found birds. As far as 228 million years ago, the Pterosaurs used flight to reign down onto other animals from above and eat them. The first known bird-like dinosaur was the Archaeopteryx, which lived around 150 million years ago. It's not considered an ancestor of modern birds - but other dinosaurs from the same era, the theropods, are. 25 million years later, in modern China, the Confuciusornis sanctus had feathers and could have flown. The first humans wouldn't emerge from Africa until 23 million years later. By the 2300s BCE, the Summerians depicted shepherds riding eagles, as humanity looked to the skies in our myths and legends. These were creatures, not vehicles. The first documented vehicle of flight was as far back as the 7th century BCE when the Rāmāyana told of the Pushpaka Vimāna, a palace made by Vishwakarma for Brahma, complete with chariots that flew the king Rama high into the atmosphere. The Odyssey was written around the same time and tells of the Greek pantheon of Gods but doesn't reference flight as we think of it today. Modern interpretations might move floating islands to the sky, but it seems more likely that the floating island of Aeollia is really the islands off Aeolis, or Anatolia, which we might refer to as the modern land of Turkey.  Greek myths from a few hundred years later introduced more who were capable of flight. Icarus flew into the sun with wings that had been fashioned by Daedalus. By then, they could have been aware, through trade routes cut by Alexander and later rulers, of kites from China. The earliest attempts at flight trace their known origins to 500 BCE in China. Kites were, like most physical objects, heavier than air and could still be used to lift an object into flight. Some of those early records even mention the ability to lift humans off the ground with a kite. The principle used in kites was used later in the development of gliders and then when propulsion was added, modern aircraft. Any connection between any of these is conjecture as we can't know how well the whisper net worked in those ages. Many legends are based on real events. The history of humanity is vast and many of our myths are handed down through the generations. The Greeks had far more advanced engineering capabilities than some of the societies that came after. They were still weary of what happened if they flew too close to the sun. In fact, emperors of China are reported to have forced some to leap from cliffs on a glider as a means of punishment. Perhaps that was where the fear of flight for some originated from. Chinese emperor Wang Mang used a scout with bird features to glide on a scouting mission around the same time as the Icarus myth might have been documented. Whether this knowledge informed the storytellers Ovid documented in his story of Icarus is lost to history, since he didn't post it to Twitter. Once the Chinese took the string off the kite and they got large enough to fly with a human, they had also developed hang gliders. In the third century BCE, Chinese inventors added the concept of rotors for vertical flight  when they developed helicopter-style toys. Those were then used to frighten off enemies. Some of those evolved into the beautiful paper lanterns that fly when lit.There were plenty of other evolutions and false starts with flight after that. Abbas ibn Ferns also glided with feathers in the 9th century. A Benedictine monk did so again in the 11th century. Both were injured when they jumped out of towers in the Middle Ages that spanned the Muslim Golden Age to England.  Leonardo da Vinci studied flight for much of his life. His studies produced another human-power ornithopter and other contraptions; however he eventually realized that humans would not be able to fly on their own power alone. Others attempted the same old wings made of bird feathers, wings that flapped on the arms, wings tied to legs, different types of feathers, finding higher places to jump from, and anything they could think of. Many broke bones, which continued until we found ways to supplement human power to propel us into the air. Then a pair of brothers in the Ottoman Empire had some of the best luck. Hezarafen Ahmed Çelebi crossed the Bosphorus strait on a glider. That was 1633, and by then gunpowder already helped the Ottomans conquer Constantinople. That ended the last vestiges of ancient Roman influence along with the Byzantine empire as the conquerers renamed the city to Instanbul. That was the power of gunpowder. His brother then built a rocket using gunpowder and launched himself high in the air, before he glided back to the ground.  The next major step was the hot air balloon. The modern hot air balloon was built by the Montgolfier brothers in France and first ridden in 1783 and (Petrescu & Petrescu, 2013). 10 days later, the first gas balloon was invented by Nicholas Louis Robert and Jacques Alexander Charles. The gas balloon used hydrogen and in 1785, used to cross the English Channel. That trip sparked the era of dirigibles. We built larger balloons to lift engines with propellers. That began a period that culminated with the Zeppelin. From the 1700s and on, much of what da Vinci realized was rediscovered, but this time published, and the body of knowledge built out. The physics of flight were then studied as new sciences emerged. Sir George Cayley started to actually apply physics to flight in the 1790s.  Powered Flight We see this over and over in history; once we understand the physics and can apply science, progress starts to speed up. That was true when Archimedes defined force multipliers with the simple machines in the 3rd century BCE, true with solid state electronics far later, and true with Cayley's research. Cayley conducted experiments, documented his results, and proved hypotheses. He finally got to codifying bird flight and why it worked. He studied the Chinese tops that worked like modern helicopters. He documented glided flight and applied math to why it worked. He defined drag and measured the force of windmill blades. In effect, he got to the point that he knew how much power was required based on the ratio of weight to actually sustain flight. Then to achieve that, he explored the physics of fixed-wing aircraft, complete with an engine, tail assembly, and fuel. His work culminated in a work called “On Aerial Navigation” that was published in 1810.  By the mid-1850s, there was plenty of research that flowed into the goal for sustained air travel. Ideas like rotors led to rotor crafts. Those were all still gliding. Even with Cayley's research, we had triplane gliders, gliders launched from balloons. After that, the first aircrafts that looked like the modern airplanes we think of today were developed. Cayley's contributions were profound. He even described how to mix air with gasoline to build an engine. Influenced by his work, others built propellers. Some of those were steam powered and others powered by tight springs, like clockworks. Aeronautical societies were created, wing counters and cambering were experimented with, and wheels were added to try to lift off. Some even lifted a little off the ground. By the 1890s, the first gasoline powered biplane gliders were developed and flown, even if those early experiments crashed. Humanity was finally ready for powered flight. The Smithsonian housed some of the earliest experiments. They hired their third director, Samuel Langley, in 1887. He had been interested in aircraft for decades and as with many others had studied the Cayley work closely. He was a consummate tinkerer and had already worked in solar physics and developed the Allegheny Time System. The United States War department gave him grants to pursue his ideas to build an airplane. By then, there was enough science that humanity knew it was possible to fly and so there was a race to build powered aircraft. We knew the concepts of drag, rudders, thrust from some of the engineering built into ships. Some of that had been successfully used in the motorcar. We also knew how to build steam engines, which is what he used in his craft. He called it the Aerodrome and built a number of models. He was able to make it further than anyone at the time. He abandoned flight in 1903 when someone beat him to the finish line.  That's the year humans stepped beyond gliding and into the first controlled, sustained, and powered flight. There are reports that Gustave Whitehead beat the Wright Brothers, but he didn't keep detailed notes or logs, and so the Wrights are often credited with the discovery. They managed to solve the problem of how to roll, built steerable rudders, and built the first biplane with an internal combustion engine. They flew their first airplane out of North Carolina when Orville Wright went 120 feet and his brother went 852 feet later that day. That plane now lives at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and December 17th, 1903 represents the start of the age of flight. The Wright's spent two years testing gliders and managed to document their results. They studied in wind tunnels, tinkered with engines, and were methodical if not scientific in their approach. They didn't manage to have a public demonstration until 1908 though and so there was a lengthy battle over the patents they filed. Turns out it was a race and there were a lot of people who flew within months of one another. Decades of research culminated into what had to be: airplanes. Innovation happened quickly. Flight improved enough that planes could cross English Channel by 1909. There were advances after that, but patent wars over the invention drug on and so investors stayed away from the unproven technology.  Flight for the Masses The superpowers of the world were at odds for the first half of the 1900s. An Italian pilot flew a reconnaissance mission in Libya in the Italo-Turkish war in 1911. It took only 9 days before they went from just reconnaissance and dropped grenades on Turkish troops from the planes. The age of aerial warfare had begun. The Wrights had received an order for the first plane from the military back in 1908. Military powers took note and by World War I there was an air arm of every military power. Intelligence wins wars. The innovation was ready for the assembly lines, so during and after the war, the first airplane manufacturers were born. Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker was inspired by Wilbur Wright's exhibition in 1908. He went on to start a company and design the Fokker M.5, which evolved into the Fokker E.I. after World War I broke out in 1914. They mounted a machine gun and synchronized it to the  propeller in 1915. Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, flew one before he upgraded to the Fokker D.VII and later an Albatros. Fokker made it all the way into the 1990s before they went bankrupt. Albatros was founded in 1909 by Enno Huth, who went on to found the German Air Force before the war. The Bristol Aeroplane Company was born in 1910 after Sir George White, who was involved in transportation already, met Wilbur Wright in France. Previous companies were built to help hobbyists, similar to how many early PC companies came from inventors as well. This can be seen with people like Maurice Mallet, who helped design gas balloons and dirigibles. He licensed airplane designs to Bristol who later brought in Frank Barnwell and other engineers that helped design the Scout. They based the Bristol Fighters that were used in World War I on those designs. Another British manufacturer was Sopwith, started by Thomas Sopwith, who taught himself to fly and then started a company to make planes. They built over 16,000 by the end of the war. After the war they pivoted to make ABC motorcycles and eventually sold to Hawker Aircraft in 1920, which later sold to Raytheon.  The same paradigm played out elsewhere in the world, including the United States. Once those patent disputes were settled, plenty knew flight would help change the world. By 1917 the patent wars in the US had to end as the countries contributions to flight suffered. No investor wanted to touch the space and so there was a lack of capital to expand. Orville Write passed away in 1912 and Wilbur sold his rights to the patents, so the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, stepped in and brought all the parties to the table to develop a cross-licensing organization. After almost 25 years, we could finally get innovation in flight back on track globally. In rapid succession, Loughead Aircraft, Lockheed, and Douglas Aircraft were founded. Then Jack Northrop left those and started his own aircraft company. Boeing was founded in 1957 as Aero Products and then United Aircraft, which was spun off into United Airlines as a carrier in the 1930s with Boeing continuing to make planes. United was only one of many a commercial airline that was created. Passenger air travel started after the first air flights with the first airline ferrying passengers in 1914. With plenty of airplanes assembled at all these companies, commercial travel was bound to explode into its own big business. Delta started as a cropdusting service in Macon, Georgia in 1925 and has grown into an empire. The worlds largest airline at the time of this writing is American Airlines, which started in 1926 when a number of smaller airlines banded together. Practically every country had at least one airline. Pan American (Panam for short) in 1927, Ryan Air started in 1926, Slow-Air in 1924, Finnair in 1923, Quantus in 1920, KLM in 1919, and the list goes on. Enough that the US passed the Air Commerce Act in 1926, which over time led to the department of Air Commerce, which evolved into the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA we know today. Aircrafts were refined and made more functional. World War I brought with it the age of aerial combat. Plenty of supply after the war and then the growth of manufacturers Brough further innovation to compete with one another, and commercial aircraft and industrial uses (like cropdusting) enabled more investment into R&D In 1926, the first flying boat service was inaugurated from New York to Argentina. Another significant development in aviation was in the 1930s when the jet engine was invented. This invention was done by Frank Whittle who registered a turbojet engine patent. A jet plane was also developed by Hans von Ohain and was called the Heinkel He 178 (Grant, 2017).  The plane first flew in 1939, but the Whittle jet engine is the ancestor of those found in planes in World War II and beyond. And from there to the monster airliners and stealth fighters or X-15 becomes a much larger story. The aerospace industry continued to innovate both in the skies and into space.  The history of flight entered another phase in the Cold War. Rand corporation developed the concept of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (or ICBMs) and the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space in 1957.  Then in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first landing on the moon and we continued to launch into space throughout the 1970s to 1990s, before opening up space travel to private industry. Those projects got bigger and bigger and bigger. But generations of enthusiasts and engineers were inspired by devices far smaller, and without pilots in the device.

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace. ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Michael Horn has 43 years of experience as a science researcher and began his study and research into the UFO contacts of Billy Meier, in 1979. In 1986, Michael found previously unknown warnings, originally published by Billy Meier beginning in 1951, about unnatural manmade climate change, global warming, the increased frequency and intensity of storms, blizzards, tsunamis, and the coming climate destruction. Michael also found that Mr. Meier was the first person to warn about the damage to the ozone layer from A-bomb explosions, and about the connection between the extraction of petroleum and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, all of which were subsequently scientifically corroborated.The Singularly Authentic Billy Meier UFO Case02/03/2022 Dr.Bob Wood On UFO's And Much More! Bob Wood received a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Colorado in 1949, a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell in 1953, worked for General Electric Aeronautics and Ordnance, served in the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground for two years, and then completed 43 years with Douglas Aircraft and its successors. A long-time Director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a Councilor for the Society for Scientific Exploration, and member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 1947, he has garnered a reputation for integrity and scholarship in this field over the last two decades. His aerospace career included the thermodynamics of keeping missiles cool; managing and selling the independent research and development projects of a couple of dozen scientists and engineers; designing radars to discriminate between Soviet ballistic missiles and their decoys; applying advanced technology to make the Space Station cheaper, better, and sooner; and finally helping to sell the Delta launch vehicle as the workhorse for NASA orbital payloads. In the late 1960s, he ran a proprietary project to try to discover how UFOs “worked,” and has been studying the UFO topic ever since. Upon retirement, he became involved in the forensics of authenticating questioned “leaked” UFO documents, collaborating occasionally with his colleague and son Ryan (author of MAJIC – Eyes Only)

The story of a female vampire, a femme fatale, a girl who just one day walks into a photographer's studio and wants to do some modelling. Get my audiobooks at an insane deal. London Horror Stories  https://mailchi.mp/tonywalker/london-horror-stories (https://mailchi.mp/tonywalker/london-horror-stories) If you want to say thank you for all the stories please don't buy me a coffee (I'm wired enough), buy a book!  Get an ebook here:  https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-haunting-of-tullabeg (https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-haunting-of-tullabeg) Get a paperback here:  https://www.bookdepository.com/Haunting-Tullabeg-Tony-Walker/9798736978946 (https://www.bookdepository.com/Haunting-Tullabeg-Tony-Walker/9798736978946) Join my mailing list and get a download: https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire) Music By The Heartwood Institute https://bit.ly/somecomeback (https://bit.ly/somecomeback) Fritz Leiber Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr was born in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois and died in San Francisco, California in 1992 when he was 81. His parents were actors and when he was a child he toured with them when they were acting. He got his degree in 1932 in psychology and then after graduating went to be a minister in the Episcopal Church. But didn't finish and went back to do postgraduate studies in philosophy. He is best known for his fantasy, horror and science fiction stories but he was also a chess master. He was one of he fathers of the Sword & Sorcery genre along with Robert E Howard and Michael Moorcock and it was Leiber who coined the term. His early career was as an actor, following in his parents' footsteps. But he did write some stories. His literary career seems to have been spurred on when he entered into correspondence with H P Lovecraft in 1936 (Lovecraft died in 1937) and he published his first Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser sword and sorcery story in 1939 in a pulp magazine.  He had been a pacifist but when the Second World War broke out he was convinced that the struggle against fascism was worth fighting and he went to work for Douglas Aircraft corporation but still wrote fiction. He married Jonquil Stephens in 1936 and she died in 1969.  Leiber had a life-long battle with alcoholism and long period of addiction to barbiturates was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Despite the success of his novels he was extremely poor and lived in a down at heel hotel surrounded by bookshelves with a manual typewriter.  Things looked up towards the end of his life when he began to get royalty checks from TSR who were the publishers of the successful Dungeons & Dragons games and who had licensed his work. Leiber died in 1992 of a stroke but he married Margo Skinner in the last year of his life The Girl With The Hungry Eyes Lieber published this story in 1949 and it was made into an episode of The Night Gallery in 1972 and has been made into a film twice, once in 1967 and then in 1995. It was also the title of a. Son by Jefferson Starship in 1979 on their album Freedom at Point Zero. Our protagonist is a down at heel commercial photographer when The Girl seeks him out. Is this an act of philanthropy ? In fact as deadly as she is to all other men who covet her she seems to have a soft spot for our photographer and let's him live, repeatedly rebuffing his attempts to engage in fatal lovemaking.  This seems a very male story. It is uncomfortable to read after the #MeToo revelations because it suggests that slapping the chops off The Girl would be an appropriate and even positive thing to do and that making a pass at a girl in an empty office is exactly what all men would and should do. She is the only female in the story, and she is an archetype. She is a vampire and she punishes these men for their covetous lust but all the same they seem like poor saps driven to lust after her by their impulses. Again the suggestion is Support this podcast

Todays guest is Tom Morey the inventor of the "Morey Boogie" Bodyboard. Tom is a creative surf designer, inventor and theorist from Southern California. Tom was born in Detroit in 1935. His family moved to Laguna Beach when he was 9 and he started surfing Main Beach on a "Surf Matt". He then moved to Santa Monica and began doing "stand-up surfing" at Malibu Point. In 1958 he received a BA in Mathematics from USC and became an engineer for Douglas Aircraft. In 1969 he quit Douglas to start "Morey Surfboards". One year later he formed "Morey-Pope Surfboards" with San Diego Surf designer Karl Pope. Morey and Pope created innovative board designs such as the "Trisect" ... a travel ready, three piece board that came with its own suitcase. Morey helped develop "Slipcheck" a surfboard traction aerosol spray-on used as an alternative to surfboard wax. He invented the W.A.V.E. set, the first commercially successful removable fin system. In 1965 Tom created the "Tom Morey Invitational" Surfings first cash prize contest worth $1,500. It was a nose riding contest held in Ventura, an event that attracted all the hot surfers of the time like Mikey Munoz and Mike Hynson. Morey pushed articles for Surfer Magazine on a wide range of topics including surf contests, wave formation, riding techniques, health and artificial surf (wave pools). In a Surfer magazine article from 1971 Tom proclaimed "I am Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Gram Bell and Bob Simmons". Morey gave new life to prone surfing in 1973 by marketing his 2 year old invention called the "Morey Boggie" a 4 foot ,soft bellyboard made mostly out of closed-cell polyethylene packing foam. Easier, cheper and safer to ride than surfboards, "Boggie Boards" soon became very popular with the kids and the tourists. 80,000 units were shipped in 1977 just before Morey sold the "Boggie" to American Toy Giant "KRANSCO". Sale more than quadrupled by the end of the decade and the "Boggie Boards" were soon available in thousands of coastal grocery stores and surf shops. By the early 80's Bodyboarding had its own identity separate from surfing. Bodyboarding is described as the most popular form of surfing, as bodyboards outsell surfboards by huge margins. "Bellyboarding" is the original form of "Bodysurfing" dating back hundreds if not thousands of years, it was all but not dead in the 60's. Stand-up surfing was the most popular way to ride a wave back then with knee boarding a distant second. The "Bodyboard", as all Boggie type craft would soon be called was more than just a wave tool. According to Tom "For anybody to be a graduate of this planet" Morey said "it is essential for them to learn this activity". Millions of Boggies and Boggie knock offs were in the water in the mid 80's. Earlier Tom and Mike Doyle co developed "Morey-Doyle" soft top surfboards. Tom has been in many surf movies and documentaries such as "Golden Breed", "Blazing Longboards", "The Liquid Stage", and "Endless Summer 2". Tom was listed by Surfer magazine as one of the most influential surfers of the century.      

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Todays guest is Tom Morey the inventor of the "Morey Boogie" Bodyboard. Tom is a creative surf designer, inventor and theorist from Southern California. Tom was born in Detroit in 1935. His family moved to Laguna Beach when he was 9 and he started surfing Main Beach on a "Surf Matt". He then moved to Santa Monica and began doing "stand-up surfing" at Malibu Point. In 1958 he received a BA in Mathematics from USC and became an engineer for Douglas Aircraft. In 1969 he quit Douglas to start "Morey Surfboards". One year later he formed "Morey-Pope Surfboards" with San Diego Surf designer Karl Pope. Morey and Pope created innovative board designs such as the "Trisect" ... a travel ready, three piece board that came with its own suitcase. Morey helped develop "Slipcheck" a surfboard traction aerosol spray-on used as an alternative to surfboard wax. He invented the W.A.V.E. set, the first commercially successful removable fin system. In 1965 Tom created the "Tom Morey Invitational" Surfings first cash prize contest worth $1,500. It was a nose riding contest held in Ventura, an event that attracted all the hot surfers of the time like Mikey Munoz and Mike Hynson. Morey pushed articles for Surfer Magazine on a wide range of topics including surf contests, wave formation, riding techniques, health and artificial surf (wave pools). In a Surfer magazine article from 1971 Tom proclaimed "I am Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Gram Bell and Bob Simmons". Morey gave new life to prone surfing in 1973 by marketing his 2 year old invention called the "Morey Boggie" a 4 foot ,soft bellyboard made mostly out of closed-cell polyethylene packing foam. Easier, cheper and safer to ride than surfboards, "Boggie Boards" soon became very popular with the kids and the tourists. 80,000 units were shipped in 1977 just before Morey sold the "Boggie" to American Toy Giant "KRANSCO". Sale more than quadrupled by the end of the decade and the "Boggie Boards" were soon available in thousands of coastal grocery stores and surf shops. By the early 80's Bodyboarding had its own identity separate from surfing. Bodyboarding is described as the most popular form of surfing, as bodyboards outsell surfboards by huge margins. "Bellyboarding" is the original form of "Bodysurfing" dating back hundreds if not thousands of years, it was all but not dead in the 60's. Stand-up surfing was the most popular way to ride a wave back then with knee boarding a distant second. The "Bodyboard", as all Boggie type craft would soon be called was more than just a wave tool. According to Tom "For anybody to be a graduate of this planet" Morey said "it is essential for them to learn this activity". Millions of Boggies and Boggie knock offs were in the water in the mid 80's. Earlier Tom and Mike Doyle co developed "Morey-Doyle" soft top surfboards. Tom has been in many surf movies and documentaries such as "Golden Breed", "Blazing Longboards", "The Liquid Stage", and "Endless Summer 2". Tom was listed by Surfer magazine as one of the most influential surfers of the century.      

Episode: 2028 The B-36: an airplane that fell in the crack of technological change.  Today, we fall into a technological crack.

É incrível como os supostos ovnis interferem na vida humana, a ponto de confundir militares estadunidenses com os aviões japoneses. Esse fato só poderia causar muitos danos, e em seguida acobertado pelo governo. O que acha desse fato? Citações do episódio: cidade Lons Angeles; Pearl Harbor; Herald Express; Santa Monica; Long Beach; Paul T. Collins; Long Beach da Douglas Aircraft Company; Douglas Aircraft, Dougherty Field, Signal Hill Oil; Frank Knox; Long Beach Independent; General George C. Marshall; Presidente Franklin Roosevelt. -Página do Facebook: Mistério do Sol. Gostou? Curta e compartilhe. Deus o abençoe!----Doação de 2$ acesse https://mpago.la/1QhzEzA e Doação de 5$ https//mpago.la/1gg2wYD ..............................Ou seja um doador mensal escolhendo estas opções: https://anchor.fm/midosol/support --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/midosol/support

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.

Keller is an aerospace engineer and graduate of the School of Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Science degree in Management Science from the University of Southern California. Mr. Keller was a computer systems analyst at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. The system was used for resources management in the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. Mr. Keller has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.

A recent not-so-nice review on iTunes combined with some of my own mutterings, plus a listener question combined to produce some thoughts on how we can set our outlook for the long haul, as the Covid reality is extending beyond weeks and months. Here is the brief article I mentioned at the end: Not everyone suffered during the Great Depression. More people became millionaires during this time than in any other time in American history. Opportunities, that were not present during the 1920s economic boom times, suddenly became available. An economic downturn is a good time to start a business. Start-up costs are much lower in a recession than in boom periods. Savvy entrepreneurs edged in and positioned themselves for when the economic climate improved. Many poorly run businesses closed during the Depression years and their equipment and assets could be bought at fireside sales for next to nothing. Commercial rents were cheap and wages were low. There was also time to get the business fundamentals right before increased orders made it too hectic for the entrepreneur to build and test his business model. It was these ‘if you can dream it, you can do it’ Great Depression entrepreneurs that made the best of the crisis to provide a service, or product, for new markets.Who were some of these maverick entrepreneurs? Some very famous names made their money during the Depression era. In Kentucky, a grandfather, called Colonel Sanders, started serving fried chicken at his gas station. By 1937 he had expended to a 142 seat restaurant due to popular demand. Two young electrical engineering graduates stared a electrical machine business in a rented garage during the 1930s. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard officially became business partners in 1939 with only $538 in investment money.Many people with small amounts of liquid cash were able to buy bankrupt businesses at bargain prices. Towards the end of the 1930s some business people watched the upsurge in military spending by some countries. The world was preparing for war and those that invested in companies that made in-demand products for the government stood to make lots of money. Companies dealing with shipping, military vehicles, textiles (for uniforms, tents, etc.), metals (copper, steel, aluminum and iron), shipping and petroleum products made a fortune. Well known companies that were bought at this time were John Deere, Reynolds Metals and Douglas Aircraft.Another huge opportunity was real estate. During the Depression years, demand was low and thus prices were low as well. Visionary business people knew that real estate values would go up in the future and when they did they used the equity to leverage their business growth and expansions. Those wise folk that were not caught up in the stock market frenzy in the 1920s, and saved their cash, were well positioned to snap up bargain businesses and became millionaires as a result.Enjoy the Journey!Thomas See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Allen and Dan discuss the impacts on the aircraft industry and the internal workings of aircraft companies. How many aircraft OEMs will survive this world-changing struggle? Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Transcript Dan: Welcome back! This is episode 4 of the Struck Podcast. I'm your co-host DanBlewett and I'm here joined remotely by lightning protection expert Allen Hall. Allen, how are you doin? Allen: Great Dan, how are you doin' down in Washington DC? Dan: I am doing well. It's been beautiful the last couple days. It was almost eighty degrees yesterday. And so it's really nice out now but pretty windy. I think I want to probably get a run in after the podcast is over. But yeah it's still, the ghost town which I think is the right thing to do. But how's  Williamstown doing? Is it warming up there yet? Allen: No. In fact your wind storm is our snowstorm. It's supposed to snow tonight between one and three inches. So tomorrow would have been a snow day for the kids not to go to school, but obviously, they're home already. So that's out the window. But we have not reached spring yet. We're still a couple good weeks away from real spring.  Dan: Yikes.We're--you know as we talked about-- weeks away from anything right now. There's only one thing we're all wondering how many weeks away it is which is when does this whole thing start to end. Got any predictions?  Allen: I think we're talking about middle May. And just listening to some news last night and some airline talk over the last couple of days, it seems like in at least the United States you may see some activity and some people returning to work and being a little more productive. Starting in May and then it slowly gradually increases where we bring people back and get things going again. I was just at one of our customers' facilities earlier today and there was roughly twenty percent of the people there. And it's been that way for a couple of weeks but they're also thinking maybe next week a couple more people can come back. Not huge percentages. But as things have leveled out, at least around us, they're probably gonna bring some of them back. Dan: Yeah. So as we check up on the airline industry, there are a couple new news stories just recently. So Boeing and Airbus are both closing some factories down at least temporarily. You know Airbus in Alabama they're not laying off their employees, they're gonna have their jobs back it sounds like. But they're just heading home for right now. So they are furloughed I guess. And then Germanwings which is the low-budget airline from Lufthansa overseas sounds like they're shutting them down for good and just sort of consolidating with their overall bigger brand. Do you expect more of this?   Allen: Too many airplanes Dan: Yeah. I mean is this a...I was listening to another podcast earlier today and they were talking about auto industry brands. And that at one point there were a hundred ten different auto manufacturers. Brands like Chrysler, Ford, Jeep. And like economic downturns like this can sort of just eliminate some of the ones we don't need  necessarily. Do you feel like that's happening here in aviation?  Allen: Yeah. Downturns have predicted winners and losers. If you have enough cash stored away and you have an ability to quickly scale back up, you're gonna be a winner. If you don't you're going to be gone. And you saw that in the aircraft industry in the United States through if you look into the late 60s and the early 70s. There was a lot of small aircraft manufacturing--a lot of more aircraft manufacturing. Douglas Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas is still around. Yeah. There was a lot more aircraft manufacturers. A lot of them were leftover from sort of World War 2 era.

Todays guest is Tom Morey the inventor of the "Morey Boggie" Bodyboard. Tom is a creative surf designer, inventor and theorist from Southern California. Tom was born in Detroit in 1935. His family moved to Laguna Beach when he was 9 and he started surfing Main Beach on a "Surf Matt". He then moved to Santa Monica and began doing "stand-up surfing" at Malibu Point. In 1958 he received a BA in Mathematics from USC and became an engineer for Douglas Aircraft. In 1969 he quit Douglas to start "Morey Surfboards". One year later he formed "Morey-Pope Surfboards" with San Diego Surf designer Karl Pope. Morey and Pope created innovative board designs such as the "Trisect" ... a travel ready, three piece board that came with its own suitcase. Morey helped develop "Slipcheck" a surfboard traction aerosol spray-on used as an alternative to surfboard wax. He invented the W.A.V.E. set, the first commercially successful removable fin system. In 1965 Tom created the "Tom Morey Invitational" Surfings first cash prize contest worth $1,500. It was a nose riding contest held in Ventura, an event that attracted all the hot surfers of the time like Mikey Munoz and Mike Hynson. Morey pushed articles for Surfer Magazine on a wide range of topics including surf contests, wave formation, riding techniques, health and artificial surf (wave pools). In a Surfer magazine article from 1971 Tom proclaimed "I am Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Gram Bell and Bob Simmons". Morey gave new life to prone surfing in 1973 by marketing his 2 year old invention called the "Morey Boggie" a 4 foot ,soft bellyboard made mostly out of closed-cell polyethylene packing foam. Easier, cheper and safer to ride than surfboards, "Boggie Boards" soon became very popular with the kids and the tourists. 80,000 units were shipped in 1977 just before Morey sold the "Boggie" to American Toy Giant "KRANSCO". Sale more than quadrupled by the end of the decade and the "Boggie Boards" were soon available in thousands of coastal grocery stores and surf shops. By the early 80's Bodyboarding had its own identity separate from surfing. Bodyboarding is described as the most popular form of surfing, as bodyboards outsell surfboards by huge margins. "Bellyboarding" is the original form of "Bodysurfing" dating back hundreds if not thousands of years, it was all but not dead in the 60's. Stand-up surfing was the most popular way to ride a wave back then with knee boarding a distant second. The "Bodyboard", as all Boggie type craft would soon be called was more than just a wave tool. According to Tom "For anybody to be a graduate of this planet" Morey said "it is essential for them to learn this activity". Millions of Boggies and Boggie knock offs were in the water in the mid 80's. Earlier Tom and Mike Doyle co developed "Morey-Doyle" soft top surfboards. Tom has been in many surf movies and documentaries such as "Golden Breed", "Blazing Longboards", "The Liquid Stage", and "Endless Summer 2". Tom was listed by Surfer magazine as one of the most influential surfers of the century.                        

This Discover Lafayette podcast is our second one with Paul Hilliard, who founded Badger Oil in Lafayette in 1955. Paul reflects on the WWII generation and what our country was like when the U. S. entered the war in December 1941. The United States of America was a different place in 1941. Coming off the heels of the Great Depression, young men and women jumped at the chance to serve their country. 6,332,000 of the 16 million who served were volunteers, many in their teens. Paul Hilliard was 17 when he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps during his Senior year in high school in February 1943, quitting school when he received permission from his mother to join the war effort. Hilliard lived in Wisconsin which was just coming off of a severe drought. Days on the farm were tough and families were poor, having to sell off livestock to survive. Those who entered service early in the war didn't necessarily sacrifice, according to Hilliard, because they were paid a decent wage, supplied with clothing and food, and taught discipline. These thoughts, spoken by Hilliard, serve as an example of the selfless spirit of our beloved WWII veterans. In 1940, a third of American homes had no electricity or running water, one-quarter of the population lived on farms, less than 25% of American adults had a high school diploma, and less than 3% had a college degree.  There were 132 million people in the U. S. vs. 327 million today. The war changed the world and indelibly changed the future course of the U. S. Hilliard was trained to be a gunner, handling machine guns in the back of Douglas SBD Dauntless (Scout Bomber by Douglas Aircraft) planes in air missions conducted in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. SBD was jokingly referred to as "Slow But Deadly." He flew 45 combat missions and was twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in addition to receiving the Air Medal with six bronze stars. This interview provides an opportunity to hear in Paul's own words what it was like to serve. Following his service, Hilliard earned his law degree from the University of Texas before beginning a career in the oil and gas industry. He credits the GI Bill for the opportunities it afforded him and so many other servicemen who would not have otherwise been able to obtain an education. In September 2018, Hilliard accepted the position of Board Chair of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. He will focus on the completion of the Museum’s $400 million campus expansion and the growth of its national education offerings. Hilliard will also assist in the Museum’s ongoing commemoration of historically significant milestones, including the 75th Anniversary of D-Day in June 2019. Paul discussed a book by Paul Kennedy, Engineers of Victory, that details the tactical efforts utilized by the Allies to successfully fight WWII.  Particularly in the Pacific Theatre, land or naval operations weren't a feasible option and air power was an emerging tool utilized by the military in strategic bombing .  America's productivity was a key factor in our victory, as over 300,000 military aircraft were built by the U. S. For more information on the National WWII Museum, visit https://www.nationalww2museum.org. The website is a treasure trove of thousands of oral histories and hundreds of thousands of photos depicting the WWII experience. Thanks to Paul Hilliard for his lifelong example of patriotism and leadership. He embodies the heart and soul of the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America.  

Ronald Regehr returns for a freewheeling look at many subjects including the recent so-called "Roswell Slides" fiasco where we will address how this scenario may be emblematic of problems inherent in this wild west field of pseudo-scientific inquiry. Ron is ready to publish "Another Damn Book About Roswell," which contains many tantalizing facts and little-known head-scratchers associated with the world's most famous, over-sensationalized UFO case. Ron spearheaded an analytical process targeting the "Ramey memo," held in the hand of General Ramey at the infamous July, 1947 Ft. Worth, TX press conference where the alleged Roswell weather balloon debris was shown to reporters. Regehr is a retired aerospace engineer with 36 years experience at Douglas Aircraft and Aerojet Electro Systems working in space and space surveillance systems.

Gene and Chris present Ronald Regehr, who has been a UFO researcher for more than 50 years. Regehr is also a retired aerospace engineer with 36 years experience at Douglas Aircraft and Aerojet Electro Systems working in space and space surveillance systems. He is MUFON's Director of Documentation and a MUFON research specialist in space satellite technology. Two of his major areas of contribution in UFO research are satellite detection of UFOs and analysis of photos and other data associated with the Roswell case. Regehr is currently researching the Puebloan culture history and legends as recorded via their petroglyphs and pictographs.