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The Stanzel Boys Could Fly – Friday O.C.

Two Depression era brothers decided they wanted an alternative to a life on the farm staring at the rear end of a mule and a plow.

True Texas business pioneers, they founded an entire industry. At their zenith, they employed 125 people in tiny Schulenburg, Texas. From boyhood, Victor Stanzel became a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His brother Joe could build anything that Victor dreamed up.

My friends, the Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum should be on your Bucket List of Two-Day Trips.

Highly Recommended.

Why two days? Because it is on the way to Goliad and you know damn good and well that it’s been way too long since you visited that hallowed ground and paid your proper respects.

Do check out this page on the Museum website.

The video below barely scratches the surface of the history of the interesting innovations and products these men produced. They even dabbled in amusement park rides for a while.

 

Click here for an article written by Texas writer Elaine Thomas who wrote a book about the amazing Stanzel brothers.

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54 responses to “The Stanzel Boys Could Fly – Friday O.C.”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Good morning.

    Super Dave, be sure to check out the cool cars in the linked Elaine Thomas article.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Waking up at 4am for no reason at all is becoming an unwelcome habit.

    I fear I’m becoming Super Dave.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀
      I’ve been up since about 4 AM, woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m taking daughter and SIL to the Airport at 6 AM.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Last day in paradise. I’ve been too busy to see what’s happening but I’ll try to catch up.
    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Puppies are messy. And poopy.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      They are Democrats until they grow up.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is just a bit of insight as to how far as a nation we have fallen down the sewer of evil.

    The Most Evil Man In Evangelicalism, And Those Who Platformed Him

    “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” -CS Lewis

    Like all demons, he was obsessed with children. Shedding their blood was preferable. Failing that, he could always cut them up, scalp them, sexualize them, incite them to a sexual frenzy, or castrate them. The possibilities were endless, and exciting. Demonic appetite never ceases, and Mephistopheles was hungry.

    /snip

    A year after taking the helm of NIH, Collins reportedly believed that “it is not possible scientifically to settle precisely when life begins.” In fact, before taking over NIH, Collins had already praised eugenic abortions ( when one prenatally tests the baby to see if they’re “fit” or “unfit” and disposes of them if they aren’t up to scruff) as something people “in our current society… are in a circumstance of being able to take advantage of” and something “we have decided as a society… needs to be defended.” And shortly after his confirmation at NIH, Collins said that establishing a new human embryonic stem cell registry was one of his high priorities. If Collins was indeed Mephistopheles’ vessel, the demon wasted no time in devouring his favorite kind of child: very small ones. After all, there are no embryonic stem cells without dead babies.

    Do read the whole thing.

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have one in the spitoon, too many imbedded linkies.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Keith Richards and Cher backstage at the Grammy’s circa 1890. 😉

  8. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t know how you guys do this on your phone only. This drives me nuts. I can’t wait till we get our house Wi-Fi back.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I deeply dislike having to use my phone for internet use. First of all, you can’t clearly see anything on a tiny screen. Critical details are often lost.

      Second, online content is not “what you see is what you get”.

      Third, I have big hands and fingers and osteoarthritis in every joint, including my wrists. Texting brief messages is difficult enough.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bonecrusher, even after I approved your 7:05 AM comment, it wouldn’t show up on the front page even though it appears as approved on the dashboard. I finally had to go through the quoted text and remove all but one link to get it to work.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Thank you Texpat, you da man.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Elon has shut down the advertising cartel. His lawsuit has already borne fruit. That was fast….I wonder what they were hiding? Obviously, GARM a scared of discovery.
    https://qz.com/elon-musk-lawsuit-ad-group-garm-suspend-rumble-1851617006

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      They may have disbanded, but does that mean the suit goes away? I think not as Musk has already suffered provable damages as a direct result of their tortious interference. Discovery needs to happen and people need to go to prison for their malfeasance.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Anti-trust violations are civil, not criminal actions. You can send the bad actors into financial oblivion though.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Check the link and you will find Musk filed his federal lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas. The courts of the NDT are the most feared and hated by the Left in America. Good move, Elon.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have to go pick up my presurgery antibiotics. While I’m there, I’m shopping for a new tv antenna.

    Odd that when the cable folks finished working on their lines that our antenna quit working. The TV seemsto be working, as far as I can tell.

    Then I’m going to have a healthy meal. I’m not going to want to eat tonight. I talked with my dentist yesterday, and today’s with will not involve the feared palate tissue graft. Just more implants and extraction of a baby tooth, and I think another bone graft. The big one. This spot may need two of them. Seriously, that missing bone has an X-ray shadow that looks like Mt. Everest.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is so wrong on so many levels, but I can barely stop laughing.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I was both mortified at the idea and unable to top laughing myself

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If you want to understand Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the cabal of advertisers, then you need to read and study this report. The major corporations provide the funding, but the real dirty work is being done by 4 of the 6 largest advertising companies in the world. They get paid to attempt to bankrupt all the news websites and platforms the Left hates and they are using you tax dollars to do it.

    Foundation for Freedom Online:

    The federal government is sending billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to four of the big six global advertising agencies, which include some of the leading architects of online censorship.

    These multinational corporations have spent much of the last decade demanding online censorship of “hate speech,” “disinformation,” and “harmful content” on social media platforms, all while being paid by U.S. taxpayers, who overwhelmingly support free speech.

    Since 2019, the industry has sought to pressure social media companies through the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a project of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), a body that account for roughly 90 percent of all ad spending worldwide.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. Childers discussed this lawsuit… Yesterday? I’ll be interested to read his take on these current events.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The most stupid aspect of this massive international censorship project is that the companies and their agencies are deliberately not advertising their products and services to at least half the population. They have decided the politicization of their businesses is more important than maximizing their sales. It is insane.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I haven’t gotten very far, but just the opening paragraphs of Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney is both epic and a hoot.
    https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gina-carano-disney-suit-feb-6-2024.pdf

  17. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Global Goebbels Alliance for Responsible Reprehensible Media (GARM)

    the real spreaders of disinformation and misinformation aka propaganda and lies in order to benefit the hard left totalitariancrats.

  18. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    if you don’t have honest elections and you don’t have a border you have no country.

    but people keep pretending we do.

    Venezuela here we come Nov 2024.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/president-smartmatic-voting-machine-company-indicted-bribery-money-laundering-charges

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    WE ARE MOVING

    READ THIS
    https://hamous.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SHORPY-32333u.jpg
    Pack up all your dishes
    Make note of all good wishes
    And say goodbye to the landlord for me
    That son of a witch has always bored me

    Throw out them Bluehost papers
    And that mouldy box of vanilla wafers
    Adios to all this concrete
    Gonna get me some dirt road back streets

    I have used Bluehost for a lot of years for a lot of blogs and gotten great services (back then). However, it has come to my attention that Bluehost has combined with a service called Sitelock. Sitelock is a service that locks the site from being stolen, we have it because it is basically a necessary protection app and there is a modest yearly cost but bearable. Well I have seen indications of some disturbing activity from Sitelock on our backend.

    In due diligence I started asking questions. In my research I have found that activity usually leads to high pressure sales pitches to upgrade to a very expensive bluehost/sitelock service. I have read reports from other blogs that report they got shut down by Bluehost till a “discovered” infection in the blog is cleaned out that (imagine this) only they can clean out.

    We are nearing topping out our storage limit. I can increase the limit but at a substantial cost. To get around this I would need to delete much of our image library. On the surface that is not a bad thing but what if want to keep all that? Well ya gotta consider the database.

    How the database works is it is like the a CD. When you have little info on it things run quickly but as you add data AKA webpages and images, things slow down cause the data base needs time to search through things. We have a service that speeds that process up but soon enough i would need to upgrade………… or delete.

    As I promised when I rebuilt the blog it runs fine. The theme is still functional, secure and as fast as can be reasonably expected for what we pay for. AGAIN I do not mind paying for services and funding the blog but there Bluehost has gotten to big for our britches. There are plenty of quality value added providers out there and I am going to move us to a new server. We still have 6 months till this subscription expires. That gives me time to find a new home and get us moved without service interruption.

    So I am going to nip this problem in the butt.

    1. I am going to download a back up to my computer that includes all data and images
    2. Texpat is going to get a thumb drive with that back up and i will have one too.
    3. Go through the pictures and remove a bunch of fodder and keep what is important and germane to the blog posts.
    4. Improve search function
    5. I am going to find us a new hosting site
    6. Make several back end upgrades before moving
    7. Move it about January.
    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      God bless you, dude. I would have no idea.

      If you need financial contributions, count me in

    2. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Aw, man.
      Thanks for all you do.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I purchased a new tv antenna…tv still giving me the blank spinning eye.

    Did the cable folks send a surge that screwed up my TV electronics?

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Waiting to check in for today’s dental experience.

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Make sure you read my comment below. This move affects all of us.

    WE ARE MOVING

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Aw, man.
      Thanks for all you do.

  23. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    you live in a world where if you don’t believe a man can become a woman just by putting on a dress and boys can have periods you’re weird and very far right.

    it’s what happens when you have no real opposition party for the last 4 decades.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Interesting discussion on whether the Cackler wants the job.
    https://www.libertynation.com/does-kamala-harris-really-want-to-be-president/

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Cackler’s crowds are generated at least in part by CGI.
    https://defiantamerica.com/a-quick-investigation-reveals-whether-cgi-was-used-during-kamala-harris-rally-concert-screenshots/

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo’s position was LAT 0º 31’ N and LONG 179 30’ W. The date was 31 December 1899.
    “Know what this means?” First Mate Payton broke in, “We’re only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line”. Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
    He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship’s position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
    The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line. The consequences of this bizarre position were many:
    The bow of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.
    The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.
    The date in the aft part of the ship was December 31, 1899.
    The date in the forward part of the ship was January 1, 1900.
    The ship was therefore concurrently in:
    two different days,
    two different months,
    two different years,
    two different seasons
    and in two different centuries.
    Euller, John (Sept.1953). “A freak of navigation”. Ships and the Sea. 3. p. 18

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Major cool.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      What an incredible story. Thanks.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The need to cheat is off the charts and the Ds will respond accordingly. The big question is when they are caught in the act, what will happen then? Will a prosecutor actually charge them, will a judge actually allow the case to proceed, will the fraudulent votes be counted?

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been without power most of the afternoon. I’m just now getting caught up on events here. Thank heavens we have the cyber Maestro Squawk in charge because much of this is above my skill level.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’m not sure what happened but PSE&G was working on a main street west of here and it looked like a couple of transformers were kicking out. The power clicked and off a few times so there was some kind of funky, abnormal problem over there.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Whatever or however much of the Media Library needs to be deleted, I have no objection. I cannot think of anything that needs saving from there.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      There is a bunch of junk but there are pictures that are germane to the blog post. I’ll handle it. What i want to stay away form is having to delete the posts and people see 404 entries because the data base was loaded. I want this blog more search engine accessible and see how far we might be able to make this thing grow.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Why are there two “We Are Moving” posts from Squawk at 12:34 PM and !2:36 PM ?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Because I wanted to make sure everyone saw it.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Done with today’s dental adventure. I misunderstood the scope of today’s work. No bone graft, but I did get one implant in the first bone graft. The over the teeth surgical guide for the drilling didn’t fit, because my teeth have enough room to be nomadic and something shifted since the cast was taken. When Dr. Austen said he could free drill the site, I was concerned, but he was good to his word. In fact, the placement went so well that we were able to do step two of the procedure instead of waiting months. I have a healing abutment in place instead of a stitched up surgical site.

    Them he removed the Maryland bridge that’s I’ve had for over 30 years, the one that wasn’t supposed to last that long. Next up was extracting the failing baby tooth that it had been hanging onto. Dr. Austen said it should be easy since the roots were so small that they were barely there. I warned him that past baby tooth extractions resulted in the tooth breaking off at the gum line. He thanked me for the warning and sure enough, it broke off. He acted surprised after that and said, “Oh. That we easy!” The roots were so small and so shallow that they just fell out in his hand.

    So now I’m home, and I’ve ice packed my face for the last few hours. Hubby figured out how to get the antenna working and I hooked up my DVD player, so I can lay here and watch TV.

    My hand signals at the dentist came in handy today, especially when both top and bottom jaws were numb and my mouth was full of sharp pointy things.

    I like Dr. Austen. He’s confident but not cocky, and he can do what he says he can do. And he has a great bedside manner.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Our cble just came back up. I guess this means that when I feel like sitting up instead of laying down with ice packs, I can get back in my computer.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Do not miss this one.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      This woman is more Kamala than Kamala.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Signs that Texas Children’s Hospital knows that they really screwed up by illegally continuing sexual transition services to minors:

    • layed off 5% of the staff from lack of business
    • I am getting at least two solicitations a week in the mail for donations
    • they are spending a car load of money on advertising during the Olympics

    Get your house in order, TCH. Go consult your original mission statement or die.

    And for God’s sake, get rid of that slimey scumbag Dr. Peter HOTEZ

    1. Adee Avatar
      Adee

      I also have gotten requests for donations but have no children, so I must be on some other list they have.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t get to listen to Micheal Berry as regularly as I used to.
    But I see where Dr. Mary Talley Bowden has become one of his sponsors.
    Good for them both.

    Dr. Mary Talley Bowden was a guest on our show in the early part of Covid. She ended becoming nationally famous for her outspoken views on mandatory “vaccines”, masks, 6-foot games, and much more. She’s been before Congress to testify on these issues. Through it all, she’s treated our listeners, when many others would not. No masks, no hoops to jump through, just loving care. She’s joined our Sponsor family, since so many of you are going to see her already anyway. Sleep apnea, sinus irrigation, allergy testing and treatment. She treats adults, but as a mommy, she’s great with kids. Patient-focused treatment.  http://www.BreatheMd.org 

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Regarding moving Hambone elsewhere to a new home base, I have no worries about moving me over there since I don’t have any etcetera to bring with me that I know of. Just tell me what new stuff comes with it and how to manage it. Thank you.

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