On Saturday, August 17, 1968, the Petaluma community honored Fred J. Wiseman's first air mail flight in the U.S. with the dedication of a monument at Kenilworth Park. That event was close to the spot where he took off from in his "home made" air craft on February 17, 1911, [...]
Eagle-Eyes spotted this headline to Chris Smith's column in today's Press Democrat. At this weekend's Pacific Coast Air Museum air show, a pilot flying a Stearman biplane will be the first local event, in years, that observes Fred J. Wiseman's historic air mail flight of February 17-18, 1911. As Chris [...]
This is NOT a baseball story; but the beginning of a series of blogs related to a very significant event from Petaluma'a past - almost 100 years ago, to be exact. On February 17, 1911, a local pioneer aviator by the name of Fred J. Wiseman made a flight from [...]