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New Iven Kincheloe Photo Added

Carrie — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:45:25 +0000

Thanks to Mike Clemente, I just added a new Iven Kincheloe photo to the X-2 Photo Album.

Thanks, Mike!

I have another bunch of X-2 photos that I’m scanning and processing now…coming soon.

Kincheloe to National Aviation Hall of Fame

Carrie — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:15:18 +0000

From the “about time” file, Iven Kincheloe will be be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame for 2011. Get more details on the NAHF web site.

Iven Kincheloe Pics – AF Museum

Carrie — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:09:37 +0000

The AF Museum has a neat little RSS feed that allows you to watch their photo stream. Right now, they’re going through posting pics from the Korean War. Recent additions include a bunch of Iven Kincheloe:

F-86 full size , 1, 2, 3

Widow of ‘first spaceman’ Kincheloe Jr. recalls husband

Carrie — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:32:36 +0000

The South Bend Tribune has a interview with Dorothy Kincheloe. It’s nice to see Dorothy and the family remembered 50 years later!

Print/save the article now – they only stay up for a week or so.

Kincheloe Vs. White

Carrie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:17:12 +0000

OK, this frosts me a bit. The South Bend Tribune recently ran an article about Iven Kincheloe and Robert White, but I just found out they only keep stories online for a week. Here’s a blurb I was able to grab from CollectSpace.com:

Who was the first man in space?

Cassopolis residents are likely to say it was Iven Kincheloe Jr., a Cassopolis native who in 1956 set a new altitude record when he flew a research plane 126,200 feet — nearly 24 miles — above the Earth. Kincheloe was quoted as saying that at the peak of his Bell X-2 research plane’s trajectory, he was weightless…

“At the time, he was declared the first spaceman. It was a big deal,” recalled Steve Arseneau, director of the Southwestern Michigan College Museum in Dowagiac.

So it was something of a surprise recently when news accounts of the death in Orlando, Fla., of Robert White, 85, identified him as the first man to fly a winged craft into space.

If you have a full version of the story, please leave a comment!

New Life Magazine X-2 Pics

Carrie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:59:03 +0000

It looks like Life magazine continues to scan their collection of photos. I just completed a search for X-2 and ran into some new pictures, many also from their Air Age story. In addition to the X-2, it looks like new photos of Pete Everest, Iven Kincheloe, Fitz Fulton, program members & more are appearing.