Air-Minded: A Matter of Some Gravity
Here’s a way to think about pulling Gs and why it hurts: if you weigh 200 pounds, at 9 Gs you’ll weigh 1,800. Consider that for a moment. Ready for your centrifuge ride?
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
You really never leave
Here’s a way to think about pulling Gs and why it hurts: if you weigh 200 pounds, at 9 Gs you’ll weigh 1,800. Consider that for a moment. Ready for your centrifuge ride?
TIL (today I learned) that a tube of flavored Chapstick, placed in a drawer ten years ago and then forgotten, goes rancid.
Itazuke Tower, this is Air Force 801.
I blogged about bawdy songbooks — mine and others’ — in April, 2015, and will share with you what I wrote then.
I read something yesterday and had a nostalgia attack. There are days I really miss the Air Force!
This seems more like those “Christian” pharmacists who won’t sell you a morning-after pill, or recruiters for fake abortion clinics who lure patients away from real ones.
SR-71s were generally called Blackbirds, but the ones at Kadena were nicknamed Habus after the venomous pit vipers native to Okinawa.
Yes, I’m a boy when it comes to aviation. I hope I always am.