Aerospace And Defense

NASA scientist visits town where he learned how to fly (04/22/08)
Twenty five years after Dick Trail of McCook taught him to fly, Mike Wusk prepared to leave McCook with three other members of his NASA atmospheric study crew this morning on their way back to Virginia from Alaska. Their plane is equipped with downward looking Lidar (light detection and ranging) laser, coupled with a telescope, to study pollution from the Pacific Rim and Europe that collects as a brown haze over the Arctic...

Harry Howard Eiler (03/25/08)
March 2, 1925 - March 24, 2008 Harry Howard Eiler died Monday, March 24, 2008, at his home in McCook. He was 83 years old. Harry was born to Harry Howard and Lena (Reasnor) Eiler on March 2, 1925, on the family farm near Oberlin. He graduated from Decatur County High School in 1943. On Sept. 8, 1944, he entered the U.S. Army and served during World War II. He was honorably discharged on Nov. 15, 1946, and was awarded the Purple Heart...