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If you think History is "old news" you might want to think again. Check out these recent feature stories that relate to subjects our students are currently studying.
Just about every pilot today knows the mantra, “Follow the magenta line,” as a reference to the line GPS navigation systems use to lead us to our destinations. But almost 100 years ago, airmail pilots advanced commercial aviation when they began following yellow arrows.
The possibility of precious objects hidden in secret chambers can really ignite the imagination. In the mid-1960s, British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield pondered whether one could detect hidden areas in Egyptian pyramids by capturing cosmic rays that passed through unseen voids.
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![Pilot Barnard Kemter and others bent on preserving aviation history have maintained a beacon station at Newark-Heath Airport (KVTA) in Heath, Ohio. [Courtesy: Barnard Kemter]](https://cdn.web.uta.edu/-/media/project/website/cola/history/news-events/past-is-present/images/hist_2377.ashx?mw=950&rev=b15f4d1102fa42d4b65b240ad2c41cba&revision=b15f4d11-02fa-42d4-b65b-240ad2c41cba&hash=E908E643CB927D4CC3E16D6C98575322)
