Air Minded: Close Encounters
“Yeah, we know what you fly!”
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
You really never leave
“Yeah, we know what you fly!”
When I flew for the US Air Force, the incentive ride nightmare scenario was that a passenger along for the ride would (intentionally or unintentionally) pull the handle and punch out.
I shouldn’t, but I always give the pups a pinch of whatever I’m having for lunch.
If you follow aviation accounts on social media, you’ve probably noticed how quick fellow aviation buffs are to pounce on photos of unidentified aircraft. The only thing worse is when the original poster gets the aircraft type or model wrong … then it’s Katie bar the door!
Okay, we’re all up to our eyeballs with social distancing and sheltering in place. So here’s something different.
Suddenly there’s no traffic. We’ve never heard so many birds. We could get used to this.
I won’t even mention all the things you can watch on streaming TV, because I know we’re all doing that anyway, so much so that it’s starting to slow the internet down, like disinfectant wipes in the sewers.
In 2011, when I started leading visitors on walking tours of the aircraft in Pima Air and Space Museum’s exhibit hangars, PASM had a fantastic volunteer program.