A geocaching get together to spend some time with like-minded people. Locals and visitors, seasoned cachers and newbies, even muggle plus-ones - everyone is welcome. Come along to discuss all things geocaching, be that the highs and lows of recent caching outings, future plans in the making, stats and challenges you set for yourself, running into dead-ends on elusive puzzles, or anything else on your mind.
We all know how geocaches can take us to little-known and curious places we otherwise might not have come across. I figured events could be used in a similar manner but with a date instead of a place so I like using the event description to point out curious events and stories, various odds and sods, that I came across usually while wandering around in internet rabbit holes, and that I found interesting, weird, funny or intriguing.
On this day
in 1899
Gladys Ingle was born. She was an American pilot, a wing walker and a member of the aerial stunt team the 13 Black Cats. She began performing jumps from balloons for the C.P.O. Aerial Circus in 1921. By 1922, she had begun doing stunts involving airplanes. Through her performances in the 1920s and 1930s, she became world-renowned for her aerobatics and wing walking.
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On this day
in 1910
Henri Fabre's Hydravion successfully took off and flew for a distance of about 500 metres. It was the first aircraft to take off from water under its own power. Fabre had no prior flying experience. He flew the floatplane successfully three more times that day and within a week he had flown a distance of 5.6 km.
