Animals Aloft

Aviation can sometimes be downright inhuman.

  • By Rebecca Maksel
  • AirSpaceMag.com, November 20, 2008
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In this 1932 photograph, Edna Newcomer holds Tailwind the woodchuck as she waves from the Bellanca Skyrocket The American Nurse. Janus writes: “Dr. Leon Pisculli, also seen in the window, organized the nonstop New York-to-Rome flight to study the effects of long-distance flight on humans, and presumably, on woodchucks.” Alas, the airplane went missing, and all passengers—human and woodchuck—were never seen again.


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even it it weren't written by my cuz, I'd recommend it highly (pun intended, of course)

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