A friend of mine is a retired law enforcement officer who has been approached on occasion by people wanting to know how to identify a meth lab. The individuals were concerned about whether there might be one in their neighborhoods. … Continue reading →
In a previous post titled “JSF Circus Act – The Clowns Take the Stage,” I addressed recent disturbing developments in the already troubled Joint Strike Fighter program in which the Marine F-35B V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff & landing) variant has come … Continue reading →
Filled with type-A personalities, aviation is a world of competition on multiple levels. One of the most striking dividing lines is that between pilots of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flying machines, that is, airplanes and helicopters. Any non-flyer knows full well … Continue reading →
From news.travel.aol.com: The cockpit of a commercial airplane has a variety of warning systems to help keep pilots out of unsafe situations. In many circumstances, visual and audible indicators will notify a pilot when he needs to take immediate action. … Continue reading →
The final paragraphs from Mark Steyn’s “Comment on Costs of America as World’s Policeman,” National Review Online, 3/23/2011: “Or to put it another way: America picks up the tab for maintaining a global order that enables the rest of the … Continue reading →
I didn’t make the quarter-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest because my 5,000-word excerpt failed to convince two “Vine Voice” reviewers that it deserved to be counted in the top 25%. What follows might be considered by some … Continue reading →
As a former USAF fighter pilot with a personal vested interest in tactical aviation, there are times when the current system for providing new combat “rides” for aviators seems astonishingly inept, if not irreparably broken. Recent news only serves to … Continue reading →
In September of 2010 I had finally reached the point with Pilot Error that the most logical next step was to begin submitting to agents again. It had been about five years since my one and only request for a … Continue reading →
Unless you’ve been living in a news vacuum for the past few weeks, you can’t have missed the catastrophic news from Japan about earthquakes, tsunamis, and nuclear meltdowns. I’m not sure anyone could come up with a worse triad of … Continue reading →
