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FW officer
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Ann Reeves gives rave re-
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STATE, LOCAL NEWS. 2,7
record-breaking mission
at the International Space
Station.
The astronaut said he
doesn’t have a full-time job
lined up yet despite plenty
of offers. He’ll have more
flexibility to pursue goals,
he said, once he’s no longer
a civil servant after April 1.
But he’ll still be available
for NASA debriefings and
medical tests.
“NASA will only have to
pay me $10 an hour instead
of $70 an hour, so they’re
getting a good deal,” Kelly
said. “This just allows me to
meet my NASA responsibil-
ities, but do other things.”
Speaking by phone
the flight number 8610 due
to confusion by air traffic
controllers over the similar
flight numbers. That near
collision prompted the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration
to designate the Air Force
One call sign for any aircraft
carrying the President of the
United States. So, the “Col-
umbine II” became the first
Air Force One plane.
Karl Stoltzfus, the chair-
man of Bridgewater, Vir-
ginia-based Dynamic Avia-
tion bought the plane from
an Arizona pilot and rancher
in April 2015. That rancher,
Mel Christler, bought it in
1970 in a military surplus
auction to dust crops, not
knowing its historical sig-
nificance . One that was
revealed, attempts to restore
the aircraft fell flat due to
financial constraints until
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Mikhail Kornienko. The pair
will undergo debriefings
with Russian space officials,
like their NASA counter-
parts, keenly interested in
the effects of long-duration
spaceflight as Mars beckons.
The mission set a U.S. re-
cord for a single spaceflight;
Russia still holds the world
record of 438 days, set back
in the 1990s aboard the Mir
station. Kelly also holds the
U.S. record for most time
spent accumulatively in
space: 520 days over four
missions.
Like his brother, Scott
Kelly has signed on with a
speakers bureau. He’s al
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Mark, who retired as an as-
tronaut soon after the shuttle
program ended in 2011.
Mark agreed to take part
in an unprecedented twins
study that got underway
well before Scott’s launch
last year from Kazakhstan.
Researchers are com-
paring the space twin with
his ground-bound genetic
double, on the lookout for
any physical changes. Both
Navy pilots, NASA chose
them as astronauts in April
1996.
Next week, Kelly heads
to Russia, where he’ll be
reunited with the cosmo-
naut who shared his 340-
day space station mission,
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Firefighters from several
area departments joined
Nortex VFD to battle this
house fire in the 3000 block
of FM 1001 this afternoon.
Local officials are investi-
gating the cause and origin
of the fire. It appears that no
one was injured in the fire,
but the house and a vehi-
cle in the garage were de-
stroyed. At left, firefighters
used a deck cannon to help
knock out the flames.
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Baylor falls to Yale in
first round of NCAA
March Madness
FORT WORTH (AP)
— A suspect charged in
a shootout that left a Fort
Worth police officer criti-
cally hurt
also faces
a drug-re-
lated
count.
Fort
Worth
police on
Thursday
said Ed
McIver Jr.
has been charged with pos-
session of a controlled sub-
stance. He’s also charged
with attempted capital mur-
der, evading arrest and un-
lawful carrying of a weap-
on following Tuesday’s
gunbattle in which officers
fatally shot his father.
Police were trying to
arrest Ed McIver Sr. on
assault and bail jumping
charges.
The wounded officer,
Matt Pearce, remained hos-
pitalized Thursday in criti-
cal but stable condition. Po-
lice spokeswoman Officer
Tamara Valle says Pearce
was shot more than once.
Authorities haven’t said
which suspect allegedly
wounded the officer. A
handgun and a rifle were
recovered.
Bond tops $2 million for
McIver Jr.
By LYNDA STRINGER
lstringer@tribnow.com
Mount Pleasant Regional
Airport will get to house
a unique piece of history
on Monday if all goes well
with a Saturday test flight of
the original Air Force One
“Columbine II” aircraft.
If the plane gets a
thumbs-up in the test flight
checks, it will make its first
flight in over a decade on
Monday morning from Ma-
rana, Ariz. to its new home
in Bridge water, Va. A crew
from Mount Pleasant-based
Mid America Flight Muse-
um plans to escort the air-
craft on its historic flight.
“This was a Lockheed
Constellation and it was
used by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower. This was
the actual first airplane used
with the Air Force One des-
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Glover of Mid America
Flight Museum, “This is the
only Air Force One that not
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) — After 20 years
with NASA, America’s star
astronaut Scott Kelly says
it’s time to move on.
He’s already hopped
on the speaker circuit but
is saving the serious job
discussions for retirement,
coming up in just two
weeks.
“You need to leave when
the time’s right for you —
and the time is right for
me,” Kelly said in an inter-
view with The Associated
Press.
The 52-year-old Kelly an-
nounced his retirement last
Friday, just nine days after
returning from a yearlong,
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After year in space, Scott Kelly to retire
Wednesday from Houston
— where he plans to stay
put at least for now — Kelly
said he doubts his bosses at
Johnson Space Center were
surprised when he informed
them last week that he
would be leaving. After four
missions, he hadn’t expected
to fly again for NASA.
“I even told my bosses
that I’d love to work as a
part-timer,” Kelly said, per-
haps as a contractor flying
NASA planes. “I would
love to stay as involved with
human spaceflight as I can.
I’m a huge believer in it.”
He’ll continue to be a
medical test subject, along
with his identical twin,
VALERIE REDDELL / TRIBUNE PHOTOS
Original Air Force One plan
stop over in Mount Pleasant
in a museum.”
It’s also the only private-
ly-owned presidential air-
craft in the United States.
“Every other plane is still
under government owner-
ship and this is the very first
Air Force One plane. That’s
what makes this plane so
unique,” Glover said.
His brother, Scott Glover,
founder of the museum,
will lead the escort, piloting
Mid-America’s immacu-
lately restored B-25, while
renowned aviation photog-
raphy Tyson Rininger doc-
uments the flight from the
B-25’s tail.
According to historical
records, in December 1953,
a military airplane with
President Dwight Eisenhow-
er on board was on a flight
over New York City. The
plane, “Columbine II,” was
identified by air traffic con-
trollers as “Air Force 8610.”
During the flight, it nearly
collided mid-air with a
commercial airliner that had
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The “Columbine II” aircraft, the original Air Force One from the Eisenhower administration, is being
restored to fly in the Arizona desert. Virginia-based Dynamic Aviation purchased the plane in 2015
from a rancher who didn’t know its historical significance.
House, car destroyed in fire
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Reddell, Valerie. Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 2016, newspaper, March 18, 2016; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1428874/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.