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“He wrote dozens of books related to American history, including the Revolutionary War, but his primary passion was the American Civil War,” local historian and Penn State Altoona professor Jared Frederick said.

Broadwater, 58, of Bellwood died Wednesday at UPMC Altoona.

“At a local level especially, he carried sway about conveying the story of the Civil War, putting it in the local context. He did a lot of research about local soldiers and civilians,” Frederick said.

Of note in particular was his research on the Loyal War Governors’ Conference in 1862, Frederick said.

In addition, Broadwater wrote week-to-week articles for the Mirror during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, telling readers what was happening 150 years ago at that moment, Frederick said.

He was involved with the Descendants of Civil War Veterans based in Bellwood and gave historical talks at the Altoona Area Public Library as well as Civil War round tables in the mid-Atlantic region.

“He was a much respected historian and will be greatly missed,” Frederick said.

“I think someone like him serves as a prime model for how local citizens, even if they are not teachers or educators in a formal sense, can still convey parts of our local and national heritage. I think he was a fine example in that regard,” Frederick said.

“I met him as a teenager when I was researching the Civil War. He was very welcoming to me as a youngster. He invited me to his home, and we went

Article source: http://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2017/02/local-historian-provided-knowledge-joy-to-those-around-him/

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Not so long ago, I had a conversation with my friend Matt that we both thought was really funny.

What if, we imagined, we walked into a bar one day and heard two people at nearby stools engaged in an animated debate over who was more important: Orville Wright or Wilbur Wright?

As we imagined it, this argument would be no contest of drunken fools. Rather, the debaters would have their facts straight, offering points and counterpoints on the relative merits of each Wright brother. Though the Wrights are typically joined at the hip in history (in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, Orville and Wilbur formed one entry), these debaters would reject that notion categorically.

In the end, according to the scenario Matt and I laid out, the disagreement wouldn’t be settled. Such arguments rarely are, especially when alcohol is being consumed. But privileged bystanders would know a lot more about each of the Wrights.

In the year that has passed since we dreamed up that encounter, my work as the aviation editor at Travel Weekly has clued me into many things about flying and airlines, among them that just last year Simon Schuster published “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough, which provides just the type of details Matt and I imagined these two brilliant, if slightly buzzed, barflies debating. It turns out that Wilbur was the diligent and responsible brother, while Orville was the dreamer and ideas man. Together, they made history.

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Article source: http://www.travelweekly.com/Robert-Silk/How-covering-airlines-has-altered-the-way-I-fly

The group of companies that lost the competition for Canada’s new search-and-rescue aircraft is going to court to try to overturn the contract.

Procurement Minister Judy Foote and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced on Dec. 8 that the government had selected the Airbus C295W aircraft as its new fixed-wing search-and-rescue (FWSAR) aircraft. The RCAF will receive 16 C295Ws.

But the losing bidder in the competition, a group called Team Spartan, wants the contract with Airbus, already signed, to be overturned.

An application for judicial review has been filed in the Federal Court, Team Spartan said in a Feb. 23 news release.

“Team Spartan’s main allegation is that the selected airplane is unfit to safely perform certain key Search and Rescue tasks and missions required by Canada and should have been, therefore, disqualified,” it said in the release.

Team Spartan, led by the Italian aerospace firm Leonardo, was offering Canada its C-27J aircraft. The group wants the court to issue “an order requesting that Canada cancel the contract with Airbus and award same to Leonardo.”

There are at least 165 C-295s flying with 20 countries or operators around the world.

Airbus Defence and Space is teamed with St. John’s-based Provincial Aerospace, Pratt Whitney Canada, based in Longueuil, Que., CAE of Montreal, and Burlington, Ont.’s L-3 WESCAM to provide the search and rescue aircraft to Canada.

The new planes will replace the RCAF’s 40-year-old Buffalo aircraft and older-model C-130s currently assigned to search-and-rescue duties.

The federal government has not yet responded to Team Spartan’s claims.

The contract to Airbus was valued at $2.4 billion, which

Article source: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/losing-bidder-for-new-search-and-rescue-aircraft-takes-canadian-government-to-court