On December 7, 1987, a Pacific Southwest Airlines BAe146-200 crashed into the Pacific Ocean near San Luis Obispo, CA. All five crew members and 37 passengers were killed. The cause of the accident was determined to be the unlawful death … Continue reading →
Approaching the two-week anniversary of having installed the Count-per-day plug-in, the report card indicates 537 total reads and 383 total visits. The top 20 visits-per-post list shows: 20 Single Ship 20 The Great Toilet Paper Caper 18 The Ultimate Commute … Continue reading →
I’m beginning the think the last couple of months might have been a period in which the planets aligned in such a way to create very unusual happenings in aviation. Example #1: In the democratic Republic of Congo, a 19-passenger … Continue reading →
After the initial academics-only period, we began a split schedule with classroom instruction in the morning and flying training in the afternoon, or vice versa. All military time is expressed in a 24-hour clock, so AM and PM had no … Continue reading →
A personal account by a participant of the raid continues: Williams was in the back emptying the extra gas cans into the gas tank as fast as we had burned off enough fuel. He then punched holes in the tins … Continue reading →
A week ago, I grew tired of dealing with spam. My site doesn’t have enough traffic to attract a lot of it, but the principle of the thing began to bug me. It’s no less of an invasion than the … Continue reading →
It will be called a “UCV.” Remember when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger supposedly precipitated one of the most outrageous failures in the history of the automobile industry? As the story goes, he loved the Humvee and suggested that General Motors should … Continue reading →
One of the major objectives of terror is to elicit a disproportionate response. From that perspective, the attacks of 9/11 succeeded beyond any terrorist’s wildest dreams. A three-pronged assault on the symbols of American dominance in global economics, politics, and … Continue reading →
As a pilot for almost fifty years, I’d really like to believe that aviators are a cut above the rest of humanity . . . steely-eyed, confident, capable of amazing feats that humble lesser individuals. But after reading an article … Continue reading →
Undergraduate Pilot Training began with intensive academics prior to any flying. None of us had ever flown the T-37, and the era of being handed a flight manual with instructions to “Read this tonight and be ready for a dawn … Continue reading →
