With the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Earhart disappearance in the 1930s, aviation must have seemed like a cursed avocation. I'll bet the news was crazy with similar airplane news.

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• JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Much later, but when I was a kid in the 1970’s, all the rage was talk and books about the Bermuda Triangle.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Funny story.

    When I was an air traffic controller some boy scouts came to visit and one was sitting behind my scope as I was working. I was showing him landmarks like, here’s Orlando, here’s Bimini, here’s the Bahamas.

    He says, “Where’s Bermuda?” “Over there,” I answered. “So this is the Bermuda Triangle!” he said. I said, “Yeah, I guess it is.” He paused and then asked, “Does anything well, strange, ever happen here?”

    I didn’t want to disappoint him, so I waited a second and said, “Well, they don’t let us talk about things like that.”

    He seemed pretty happy.

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• adam_y@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exckeent use of the rare but wonderful, “avocation”.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They probably said similar things as we do about those “silly billionaires building rocket ships”.

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