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Contents:

• OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS
• A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
• GAY PILOT GIV BIZARRE RANT ON PLANE’S PA SYSTEM
• GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
• OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY
• JOHN TRAVOLTA HAD SIX-YEAR GAY AFFAIR WH ME, CALIFORNIA PILOT DOUG GOTTERBA ALLEG REPORT THAT ACTOR'S MP LLS 'RIDICULO'
• TRAVELLG THE WORLD WH GAY PILOT PATRICK
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• 'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
• JOHN TRAVOLTA ADDRS FORMER PILOT'S GAY ROMANCE ALLEGATNS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'THAT WAS THE LOWT I'D EVER FELT'

OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS

Many are unaware of the ia that Santos-Dumont was gay. The history of homosexualy and aviatn is not wily rearched or for that matter acknowledged, yet there is a rich history volvg this quiet group the field startg wh one of the first pneers. The aviatn muny is startg to foc on this group of dividuals startg wh the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA).

A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS

Formed twenty years ago, the NGPA’s missn is to enurage gays and lbians to enter to the field of aviatn through tn, outreach programm and social events. ” Unfortunately this rgs te as gays and lbians still fight for social equaly. You don’t have to be gay to be part of the anisatn, but you need to be supportive of the lbian and gay muny.

” The NGPA provis an avenue for formg allianc wh bs and airl wh the aviatn muny while matag a fortable environment for gays and lbians to reach out for support. Unable to see anythg of the statn I’d flown so far to reach, I’d s at my hotel-room sk as I worked on my latt book, “Image a Cy: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World, ” a memoir about growg up as a gay kid a small place and a pilot’s love letter to great metropolis, and wonred if might soon read as a memorial to a pla that had permanently, late sprg and wh most panmic rtrictns lifted, Montreal is bloomg. I’d turn my illumated globe and read out the nam of the ci on ; I’d assemble mol plan and move them down the nway I ma on my drser; I’d draw maps of the imagary cy that distracted and staed me, particularly whenever I stggled wh the realizatn that I was gay.

GAY PILOT GIV BIZARRE RANT ON PLANE’S PA SYSTEM

After we’d checked to a hotel and sat down a rtrant whout anyone givg a send look, I wonred if I’d been too psimistic about the world and a gay kid’s future . Whatever the tth of Melville’s sexualy — as Andrew Delban not “Melville: His World and Work, ” ’s not easy to separate the tantalizg clu om the rponse of “gay rears who fd themselv drawn to him” — somethg impelled him to set out for the open ocean and the wonrs of distant ci. When his flight land, his cellular service returned and he noticed a new notifitn on the gay datg app.

GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK

Thorn said that acrdg to the gay datg app, the man was 90 feet away om him, and the man’s profile featur a photo of the sky taken om the ckp. Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack ADVERTISEMENTOct. Gay Jr., a pilot who was the only survivor of his torpedo squadron the battle of Midway, and who drifted the sea as the most important naval battle of World War II unfold around him, died on Friday at Kenntone Hospal here.

Gay flew a Douglas Devastator torpedo plane an attack on Japane warships near Midway Island on June 4, the plan his squadron were shot down, and he was the only one of 30 men Torpedo Squadron 8 to survive.

OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT

Gay watched the Amerin dive bombers hurtle out of the clouds to attack Japane aircraft rriers and found himself "cheerg and hollerg wh every h. Gay ma personal appearanc for the Navy, spreadg the news of the victory at Midway. That victory -- achieved by an Amerin fleet wh only three heavy rriers agast four heavy Japane rriers and three light on -- was a turng pot the war that Gay was a Trans World Airl pilot for 30 years after the war.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

Gay toured the untry wh the film's stars, Charlton Hton and Henry Fonda, to promote the film. A native of Wa, Tex., he eventually moved to is survived by his wife, Esther Huffman Bevacqua Gay, and two stepchildren. Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack.

ENOLA GAY

A after the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy end, one of Naval aviatn’s handful of openly gay pilots is on his way out. Adam Adamski said he felt supported as an openly gay pilot. Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment.

And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV and there was hard-re gay porn playg. “Both men and women and openly gay service members. VID: Openly Gay Pilot Leavg Navy After Harassment.

JOHN TRAVOLTA HAD SIX-YEAR GAY AFFAIR WH ME, CALIFORNIA PILOT DOUG GOTTERBA ALLEG REPORT THAT ACTOR'S MP LLS 'RIDICULO'

The ma premise is que siar: two lovers an extremely homophobic environment form a bubble where their love n thrive through stealg time om their own ordary obligtns to keep their love alive. The ntext is slightly different, sce we're alg wh a Cold-War airforce Rsia where homosexualy is punishable by prison.

After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make.

While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan.

TRAVELLG THE WORLD WH GAY PILOT PATRICK

In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas. The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott.

Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F. And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target.

'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT

” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross.

Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan.

JOHN TRAVOLTA ADDRS FORMER PILOT'S GAY ROMANCE ALLEGATNS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME: 'THAT WAS THE LOWT I'D EVER FELT'

Japan officially surrenred on September 2, Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949. In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F.