"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Monday, May 01, 2006

Up in the Air Junior Birdmen

Doc has a penchant for taking photos from airlines The Doc Searls Weblog such as this of Monument Valley : San Diego to Denver (SAN-DEN) - a photoset on Flickr.

All of this triggered memories of Ted Abrams "Father of Aerial Photography" and Aviation Pioneer.

I had the honor and pleasure of getting to know Ted in his later years.

Doc's shots brougth to mind Ted's "Glass Airplane" :



Ted also funded one of the best planetariums in the country, on the campus of Michigan State University.

Staff at the Planetarium publish one of the most widely used "Sky Calendars"

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