Air-Minded Index

I write Air-Minded posts for a general audience. They’re not meant to be scholarly, though I do check facts with multiple sources. Some of these posts are war stories about my days flying fighter and training aircraft for the USAF; some are speculative and relate to current events involving aviation; others are about current and historical aircraft and are primarily factual. Many of the photos in the articles are my own, taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum and other aviation museums.

Air-Minded posts are indexed in reverse order (most recent first).

Index updated May 29, 2020

UFO Letdown Flyover Photoblog Tailhooks & Wing Landings (Updated) Close Encounters Give Me Some Incentive 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 7/25/18) 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? 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 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 11/6/19) 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!