Veterans Day 2025
For Veterans Day 2025, I’m updating and recycling a post from 2017.
Air-MInded: The Podcast
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with Robert Hoeting, a Dutch friend who follows my blog. He’s starting a podcast featuring pilot interviews and our talk is the first installment: the subject being my experiences in the U.S. Air Force and flying the F-15 Eagle. We covered a bit of my personal history as well, stories I haven’t shared with anyone in ages.
Air-Minded: (Pod) Casting Call
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with a Dutch friend who follows my blog, Robert Hoeting.
Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXIX
Since it was relatively cool this morning, I grabbed my camera and headed down to Tucson’s Pima Air and Space Museum.
Get the Hook
There. Now you know why Air Force fighters have tail hooks.
Air-Minded: Dirty Tricks & Flyovers
About that White House flyover yesterday, a few thoughts.
Air-Minded: Give Me Some Incentive, Part II (Updated 8/16/25)
Yesterday, at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts, a back-seat passenger ejected from an F-15 as it taxied out for takeoff.
Air-Minded: Losing My Cherry
Meanwhile, that pretty little Cessna 172 at Pima Air and Space speaks to me every time I walk or drive past it, and no wonder. I lost my virginity to one of its sisters.