Who owns the sky?

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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“Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."

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0:00.0	I'm Nate Hedgee, joined today by Nick Kepadice and Hannah McCarthy.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:03.8	Hello, Nate.
0:04.7	Hi.
0:05.6	So our episode begins with a tale, which we might call the chicken and the airplane.
0:14.1	Well, this sounds a little bit like a fable.
0:15.9	Is the chicken going to get a thorn stuck in its paw?
0:18.8	I don't think chickens have paws.
0:21.3	It's talent.
0:22.5	Like, I like to paw better.
0:27.0	It's 1942, well into the Second World War.
0:29.8	It's been five years since Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific Ocean.
0:33.7	OK, so airplanes are still a relatively new invention, but they're not brand new.
0:38.8	You're not going to necessarily think it's like a dragon in the sky.
0:42.0	Exactly.
0:43.2	So this guy, Thomas Lee Cosby, is this chicken farmer in South Carolina.
0:47.8	He lives less than half a mile from a municipal airport, which wasn't a big deal
0:52.3	until the US military leased the airport in 1942.
0:56.6	And so this is wartime.
1:00.6	So we've got heavy bombers, transports, fighter planes, they're taking off, they're landing,
1:06.8	oftentimes right over Cosby's farm.
1:09.8	And they're flying like low, like barely missing the tops of the trees.
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