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Japan to Wenatchee Flight is a First.

When Charles Lindhberg became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, his flight took him from New York to the internationally famous city of Paris. The glitz and glamour of this moment was easily one of the biggest happenings of the first part of the twentieth century. Lucky Lindy leaving from the most populous area in the United States and landing his plane in the vicinity of the Eifel Tower in the renowned city of Paris, the circumstances lend themselves well to the accomplishment. What about the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean though? Was it Tokyo to Los Angeles? Hong Kong to Seattle? Maybe Sydney to San Francisco? No, the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean was accomplished by Clyde Pangborn and his navigator Hugh Herndon and began at Samishiro Beach, Japan and landed at Fancher Field above Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. That’s right, such a big aviation first ended right here in North Central Washington.

The two most unusual things about the Pangborn-Herndon flight are that it didn’t end in a major United State city as one might expect, and it also didn’t end along the coast as North Central Washington is quite a distance inland from the Pacific Ocean. Clyde Pangborn had been familiar with the area, although he had served in World War I and been a barnstorming pilot for a number of years; he was actually born in Bridgeport, Washington.

The famous trip began as an attempt to break the around-the-world flight record, but after some delays the two men decided instead to answer to call of a Japanese newspaper and try to become the first to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. The flight included a mechanical malfunction that had to be fixed by Pangborn exiting the cockpit and walking on the wing in 100 mile per hour winds at roughly 14,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. After a little over 41 hours in the air and 4,500 miles traveled, Pangborn set the small Bellanca plane down, named the Miss Veedol, on its belly at Fancher Field. It was quite a local sensation at the time, as most would imagine, to think such a small rural area would have a connection to such an international event was very exciting.

A monument was erected at Fancher Field and the name Clyde Pangborn is now famous all over the Wenatchee area. Thousands of travelers now fly in and out of Pangborn Memorial Airport, located just east of the city of East Wenatchee, on a daily basis. Clyde Pangborn went on to recruit airmen and fly in World War II, become an accomplished test pilot, sell airplanes for major aircraft manufacturers, and be buried in Arlington National Cemetary after his death; but there is still a great deal of local pride in the Wenatchee area all because of where Clyde “Upside-Down” Pangborn decided to land his airplane one day.

A working replica of Pangborn and Herndon’s plane, the Miss Veedol, has been constructed and is on

There is a small model of the Miss Veedol that sits near the northern entrance to the city of East Wenatchee.

East Wenatchee and Misawa, Japan have established themselves as sister cities because of their shared ties to the Pangborn-Herndon flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Did you ever play or do magnetic poetry? You know, those little magnetic blocks with words on them, most people stick them on their refrigerator and then you can move the blocks around to make up little poems. Now you can do it online at http://magnetic-poetry.com!

Some examples of the fine classic poetry from magnetic-poetry.com:

No movie about a hound

Is worth a turtle in trade

and…

Are you cooking these hamsters

or are they for everyone?

Great fun for everyone!

Football – What’s In A Name?

In this modern age we are constantly hit with the idea of brand loyalty. How will customers, or fans, be able to make that connection with a company or team without continuity in a name? While Green Bay has always been the Packers, not every team has always played under the name they have today.

The Chicago Bears started out as the Decatur Staleys. The Decatur Staleys? Try picturing fans nowadays cheering for the mighty Decatur Staleys.

When the AFL came about in 1960 the New York team was the New York Titans. After two unproductive seasons, the new ownership changed the name to the New York Jets. Years later, Titans would resurface in the NFL when Tennessee changed its name from Oilers to Titans after moving from Houston to Nashville (with a brief stay in Memphis as the Tennessee Oilers).

The Kansas City Chiefs have some of the most vocal and loyal fans in the NFL, few of them were there to cheer the team when they were first known as the Dallas Texans. The NFL would again bring back a previously used AFL name when the expansion Houston franchise took the name of Texans in 2002.

The name game is also prevalent in the Canadian Football League. The most extreme CFL example would be the Montreal Alouettes. The Alouettes played in the CFL from 1946 until the team ceased to exist in 1981. In 1982 a new Montreal football team joined the CFL, the Montreal Concordes. Two years later the Concordes renamed themselves the Alouettes before going out of business themselves not long after. The saga of the Alouettes doesn’t end there. The CFL had a short lived franchise in the American city of Baltimore which debuted as the Baltimore Colts, and then due to litigation changed its name to the Baltimore CFL Colts and the Baltimore CFLers, before finally settling on the Baltimore Stallions. When the NFL announced the Cleveland Browns would be relocating to Baltimore and becoming the Ravens, the ownership of the Baltimore Stallions moved the team to Montreal and became the latest incarnation of the Montreal Alouettes.

The Arizona Cardinals, back in the time they played in Chicago, were known early on as the Racine Normals.

Originally playing football as the Portsmouth Spartans, the Detroit Lions would go on to become one of the oldest NFL franchises.

Playing their first games as the Boston Patriots, the team changed its geographic name to New England without even moving. Not unheard of, the Phoenix Cardinals similarly became the Arizona Cardinals without moving.

Because of World War II and the shortage of players, the Eagles and Steelers merged for a year forming the Phil-Pitt Steagles.

The Rams have been the Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Rams before settling in St. Louis as the St. Louis Rams in 1995.

Though Seattle has always been the Seahawks, there was a prior Seahawks in professional football. In 1946, the AAFC had a team called the Miami Seahawks. That year Miami was horrible on and off the field and ended up folding and going out of business.

The World Football League of the 1970s had a team known as the Memphis Southmen, the franchise had originally been planned to be in Toronto and have the nickname of the Toronto Northmen.

Even the National Football League itself was originally named the American Professional Football Association, or the APFA.

So, really… what’s in a name?

More great football trivia can be found here!