Another adventure in the Consolidated Commodore
None of his passengers got so much as a scratch, and CNAC’s sole surviving Loening Air Yacht retrieved them in relays to Hankow. Recovering the stranded Commo...
Month: April 2012
The Last Consolidated Commodore
Building on the CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore post I made yesterday, a few weeks ago, Jerry Butsko, a volunteer archivist at the San Diego Air and Space M...
interviewed by NPR’s Robin Young for “Here and Now”
A few weeks ago, Abbas Sabetian of the Alpine Club of Iran (ACI) and I were interviewed by NPR’s Robin Young for “Here and Now.” Our story, US...
CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore
CNAC desperately needed airplanes in late 1937, and Bond tipped Colonel Lam to the existence of two Pan Am Commodores languishing in Manila. Beginning in early ...
Jim Bridwell weighs in on “The Big Chop”
Climbing legend Jim Bridwell weighs in on “The Big Chop” on Cerro Torre earlier this year. Here are a few quotes: “This aggressive policing of...
China’s Wings and book clubs
On Tuesday night, I attended a meeting of the UCLA alumni book club that had chosen China’s Wings as their March book. We ate pizza, drank, wine, and had ...