I write Air-Minded posts for a general audience. They’re meant to be interesting and entertaining, not scholarly. Some are personal war stories from my days flying fighter and training aircraft for the USAF; some are about current developments in military and civil aviation; some are about contemporary and historical aircraft. In the latter category, many photos are my own, taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum
Dawn at Tyndall AFB Air-Minded posts are listed in reverse order (most recent first).
Latest post: January 13, 2026
A Fitting Tribute, but Will It Last? The Podcast (Pod) Casting Call PASM Photoblog XXIX Dirty Tricks & Flyovers Give Me Some Incentive, Part II Seaplane Fetish Photoblog End of an Era (Updated) An Opinionated Ignoramus with a Captive Audience Paying the Piper (G Forces & Long-Term Damage) PASM Photoblog XXVII PR Past & Present (and a Rant) Kadena Memories Getting It Wrong This & That Action in the ADIZ The Big Reveal We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us PASM Photoblog XXVII (Updated) Speed Is Life … But How Much Speed? Additional Shades of Gray Mid-Airs on the Ground PASM Photoblog XXVI The End of the Whip Radio Voice To Fly, Fight … and Twerk? Nostalgia What Are We Calling It, Again? Manly Men, Revisited Whoa Nellie! Know Thine Enemy Ramming Speed PASM Photoblog XXV This Wokeism Has Gone Too Far First Blooding Contraband Crocodile Zulu Nostalgia PASM Photoblog XXIV Habu A High-Speed Abort by Any Other Name Widowmaker My Mar-a-Lago(s) Bob’s Your Back-Seater Hack PASM Photoblog XXIII Speedbrake Chaff Skid & Patches Go Fish Roger That! The Last Step’s a Doozy Story Time Prophecy Fulfilled Son of More With Less MIDAIRs & ZELLs & FOD, Oh My! PASM Photoblog XXII Doing More With Less Shirtsleeves … In Space! Great Vid (Even if It Is French) Air-Manned These Boots Are Made for Flyin’ A Catastrophic Breakdown Following up on Eagles & Eagle Eyes Planes, (No) Trains, and Automobiles PASM Photoblog XXI Volunteers Returning (Maybe) Fast & Furious Sound & Fury Supersonic Sky Dong Zipper First Flight Anticipation (Updated) Hymn, Hymn … A Christmas Story SAMs & Airlocks (Updated) Buck Fever F-15 JFS Airstarts PASM Photoblog XX A Day in the Life Waiting Until the Facts Are In For Eagle Drivers Only A Different Shade of Gray UFO Letdown Flyover Photoblog Tailhooks & Wing Landings (Updated) Close Encounters Give Me Some Incentive, Part I Name that Plane Flying Tour of the USAF Museum Boneyard Project Photoblog Leaving PASM PASM Photoblog XIX Aardvark Walk My Elephant, Airman Counting My Squadrons Tell Me Another One PASM Photoblog XVIII PASM Photoblog XVII Losing My Cherry The Acorn Days How Do Museums Work, Anyway? Starfires, Scorpions, Mighty Mice Histories & IDs Singin’ the Jackie Kennedy Blues PASM Photoblog XVI Call Sign Protocol (Wait, What?) Fitting In, Part II Wings of Freedom Photoblog Yellow Peril Eagle Versus Flanker The FAA & the 737 Max First Flights Terraplanes Little Friends & Aerial Refueling Tankers … in Spaaace! PASM Photoblog XV Training for the Last One Air Museum Update Air Force Museum Photoblog Big Jets, Little Trams, Tall Tales PASM Photoblog XIV Hijinks & One-Upmanship Grand Theft Airplane IL-2 Restoration Photoblog Son of Non-Starter (Updated) PASM Photoblog XIII Fitting In, Part I PASM Photoblog XII Literary Influences (Wait, What?) PASM Photoblog XI Sabre Vs MiG San Diego Air & Space Photoblog Air Force One Folklore & Fact Any One You Can Walk Away From Cold War Nightmare Reawakened
Air Museum News Ode to Mr. Moto A Visit to the Museum The Hell You Say PASM Photoblog X PASM Photoblog IX F-15 Pilot Reveals All Soesterberg Photoblog, April 1961 PASM Photoblog VIII Attack the Enemy When He Is Unprepared The Golden Age Influencing the Future PASM Photoblog VII Props & Jets Passin’ Gas, Old School Magnesium Overcast Revisited Conform or Die Cancel Order! (Updated) Planes of Fame Photoblog II PASM Photoblog VI Phirst Phantom Air-Minded … But Why? (Updated) PASM Photoblog V My Aviation History Shack! The First Precision Weapons Cookin’ with Gas Bitchin’ Betty CAF Museum Photoblog Heritage Flight Photoblog 2016 Sweeping Changes Non-Starter Option Revisited Vliegbasis Soesterberg Story Time Air Tanker Photoblog PASM Photoblog IV The Museum of Flight Evergreen Air Museum The Curtiss Condor (Updated) Escaping the Fall of Saigon Where’s a Black Box When You Need It? The Non-Starter Option Burning & Turning with the F-35 Special Weapons & Fighters Dragons & Bolos Planes of Fame Photoblog I Letting the Team Down “I’ve Never Seen the Knife More Dull” Propellers of the Stars Heritage Flight Photoblog 2015 Mayday, Mayday, Engine Flameout Sabres & Horseshoes The Army & the A-10 Taildragger Tales Christmas Photoblogging SERE & Torture PASM Photoblog III US Military Aircraft Insignia Coffins Cars & Planes Photoblog Throw a Nickel on the Grass Move Your Tail Women & Military Aviation PASM Panoramas Gust Locks & Horse Parts Moving Day at the Museum PASM Photoblog II House Wingie Define “Best” Flying Chainsaws PASM Photoblog I Shooting Star Photoblog Lost End of the Road Douglas F3D Skyknight DMAFB Photoblog Giant Arrows Plagiarism & Air-Mindedness Thundercraft Museum Updates Going for Guns Presentation Anxiety Hind Gunship Photoblog Behind the Curve Dragging It In Bullets, Buffs, Contra-Rotating Nissen Hut Phantom Evolution Rotorhead Photoblog Converting Jet Fuel into Noise Magnesium Overcast Restoration Addendum: Hucks Starter Get Your Motor Runnin’ (Updated) The C-130 Replacement that Wasn’t Spy Shots from the Museum Puttin’ on the Hustle Fog of War Jets & Hood Ornaments One-Oh-Wonder Air-to-Air in the F-15 Eagle Son of Duck America’s First Jet Fighter Nose Art at the Air Museum Art Planes at the Air Museum Super-Duper Sabre V for Victory Old Jets, Older Stories Reno Speculation The Wright Way Amphibians Tail Numbers Eyes in the Sky Goin’ Commando Survival Cycles Uncritical Reportage of Aviation Accidents Manly Men Fly Fighters Guns or Butter? Lost at Sea Putin Rears His Head Jack the Clock Where Are the Eagle Drivers? True Story, Fake Video Old Bones Now I Understand Why They Got Rid of Billy Mitchell On a Boom and a Prayer The Warrior Ethic A Matter of Some Gravity Sunday Flying Blogging All I Ever Needed to Know Standing Up Tactical Callsigns Fox-2 on the Yellow Mini Cooper Eject, Eject, Eject!
Looking forward to reading your stories.
Navy F4 driver’69-‘72
I didn’t read them in order but I think I read all the air-minded posts. Who says blog post are ephemeral and don’t age well? Well, that’s mostly true, if nobody much reads it when you initially post it then it surely won’t get read much in the future either. Your stuff holds up.
you can’t read that.
https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d/amazon-removes-books-critical-of-kamala:a
whodat, Kim Iversen is a right-wing anti-vaxx conspiracy fringe YouTuber, and the author, Caleb Maupin, works for fucking Russia Today. His hit piece book, Kamala Harris and the Future of America, is currently listed for sale on Amazon. Link: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=kamala+harris+and+the+future+of+america+caleb+maupin&crid=39PT7SSR9IRT1&sprefix=kamala+harris+and+the+future%2Caps%2C171&ref=nb_sb_ss_pltr-xclick_2_28
Your comment is unworthy if not a deliberate lie.
. “Kamala Harris and the Future of America” by Caleb Maupin was temporarily removed from Amazon due to concerns about its content. However, after facing criticism and accusations of censorship, Amazon decided to reinstate the book, allowing customers to continue purchasing it.
So it was not a lie, Amazon caved to pressure and reinstated it. The rest of your comment was just the same old boilerplate insult.
Great post! ? I really appreciate the way you explained the topic so clearly. Looking forward to reading more of your content.