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Despite the fact that many Welsh sports men and women will be competing at the Olympics they and any Welsh spectators will not be allowed to wave our Countries flag. O well - if anyone from China comes over to my house just to let you know you can fly any flag you want. Don't you all think we live in a very odd world and with some very silly people.
CYMRU AM BYTH
On August 4, 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh flew into Moundsville's Langin Field. His solo, non-stop 3,600-mile flight from New York to Paris, which he flew in thirty-three and a half hours on May 20-21, 1927, made Lindbergh famous worldwide. Following his record-breaking flight piloting the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh embarked on a “goodwill tour” of the United States and Latin America.
Following his arrival to Langin Field, Lindbergh was escorted to Wheeling Island to address a crowd of approximately 25,000. Speakers included Mayor Steen, “Col. Lindbergh, Wheeling Welcomes You.”; Wheeling Businessman Otto Schenk (Chairman of the Event); WV Gov. Howard Gore, “WV as an Air Center”; Peter Boyd (Governor of the WV Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association), “Our Air Lanes of the Future”; and Charles Lindbergh – “Our Future Aviators.”
Lindbergh's visit concluded with the aviator stopping at the campus of the Linsly Military Institute to place a wreath on the Aviator Statue in honor of fallen WWI ace fighter pilot, Louis Bennett, Jr.
The event was witnessed by a very large and enthusiastic crowd of spectators, as can be seen in the rare archival footage, filmed by local businessman, Charles E. Wemple.
- Video from the The Wemple films, 1926-1931, Ohio County Public Library Archives and Special Collections. Videos by Charles Wemple, digitized and donated to OCPL by G. Lukens.
➤ Learn more about Lindbergh's 1927 to the Ohio Valley
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In the late 1920s, a group of business investors in Wheeling combined to form the Ohio Valley Industrial Corporation. The Corp. was led by construction contractor Ralph R. Kitchen, who offered to invest $3 million (which it did not ultimately fulfill) in the Fokker Aircraft Co. and build a manufacturing plant and airstrip if the company would move production to Wheeling. Fokker accepted and Wheeling investors came onboard (no pun intended) Dec. 2, 1927. W.P. Wilson became chair of the Board of Directors, with Kitchen V.P.
The plant opened August 9, 1928, and the first aircraft, an F-10 for Pan American Airways, to flight on its maiden voyage from the Glen Dale Fokker airfield on December 13 of the same year. With the exception of the engines, wheels, tires, and instruments, all the parts of the planes were made in the Glen Dale plant.
On March 31, 1931 a TWA Fokker F-10A crashed in Kansas. Notre Dame football coach Knut Rockne on board. Also on board was C. A. Robrecht, a produce merchant from Wheeling who was killed with Rockne along with 6 others (Read more about this on the Archiving Wheeling blog site). The wings for the F-10A had been built in Glen Dale. Fokker closed their US plants including their Glen Dale location at the end of September 1931.
- Video from the The Wemple films, 1926-1931, Ohio County Public Library Archives and Special Collections. Videos by Charles Wemple, digitized and donated to OCPL by G. Lukens.
➤ Learn more about about the Fokker Airplane Factory in Glen Dale, WV
➤ Visit the Library's Wheeling History website
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Heineken Cup 2012/13
Cardiff Blues vs Toulon, Cardiff Arms Park
Blues: Taufa'ao Filise, Marc Breeze, Benoit Bourrust, Bradley Davies, Lou Reed, Josh Navidi, Sam Warburton, Andries Pretorius, Lloyd Williams, Ceri Sweeney, Tom James, Jamie Roberts, Gavin Evans, Alex Cuthbert, Leigh Halfpenny
Toulon: Gethin Jenkins, Mickael Ivaldi, Davit Kubriashvili, Bakkies Botha, Jocelino Suta, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Steffon Armitage, Chris Masoe, Frederic Michalak, Jonny Wilkinson, David Smith, Matt Giteau, Mathieu Bastareaud, Vincent Martin, Delon Armitage
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Alex Gregory
Tom James
Pete Reed
Andrew Triggs Hodge
Not the best photo, taken from quite a distance and heavily cropped
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Olympic gold medallist Tom James with his medal at the opening of a fun day at the Plas Pentwyn community centre in his home village of Coedpoeth, near Wrexham.
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Laulala is over the try line but the efforts of Ray Ofisa Treviranus and Ronan Loughney prevent him from touching the ball down.
Cardiff Blues vs Connacht, Cardiff Arms Park. RaboDirect Pro 12 league match, February 2012.
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Not a very good day for the City of Cardiff yesterday. First Cardiff City fail in their attempt at staying in a play off place in the Championship, and the Blues lose a historic Heineken Cup semi final to Leicester Tigers on 'penalities' (26 v 26) :-(
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Whatever coach Dai Young said at half time seemed to work wonders as the Blues came out second half and scored 39 points with no reply from the Newport Gwent Dragons. The Blues winning 42 points to 13.
Here Tom James leaps in the air to take a high ball.
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)
Col. Brian Moore, deputy director, Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retires at the Von Braun III auditorium at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, on May 12, 2023. (photos by Carrie David Campbell)