Never Forget The mighty Fitz
On November 10th, 1975. The Edmund Fitzgerald sailed on Lake Superior for the last time.
info on the sinking
From Wikipedia;
Carrying a full cargo of taconite ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her final voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second taconite freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near-hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgeraldsuddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at top speed.
Edmund Fitzgerald previously reported being in significant difficulty to the Swedish vessel Avafors: “I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I’ve ever been in.” However, no distress signals were sent before she sank; Captain McSorley’s last (7:10 p.m.) message to Arthur M. Anderson was, “We are holding our own”. Her crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. The exact cause of the sinking remains unknown, though many books, studies, and expeditions have examined it. Edmund Fitzgerald may have been swamped, suffered structural failure or topside damage, grounded on a shoal, or suffered from a combination of these.
The disaster is one of the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping, in part because Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 popular ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. Lightfoot wrote the hit song after reading an article, “The Cruelest Month”, in the November 24, 1975, issue of Newsweek. The sinking led to changes in Great Lakes shipping regulations and practices that included mandatory survival suits, depth finders, positioning systems, increased freeboard, and more frequent inspection of vessels
The Fitz has been a fixation for me since I was a little kid, as the Song from Gordon Lightfoot was introduced to me as a toddler. And the fact I might be connected to one of the 29 lost that day.
I would like to plan a fly out/Memorial flyover of the wreck at 46.9983°N, -85.1100°W .
The flight would start at KMCD or KDLH and fly the route that the Fitz took.
totally didn’t steal from @Mort
No Gates or Specific aircraft, just be respectful and remember we are doing this for the 29 sailors who passed