Air-Minded: Going for Guns
Suddenly a massive old-growth tree near the table where his guests were sitting jumped into the air and shot off sideways at 230 kilometers an hour.
Air-Minded: Presentation Anxiety
Speaking of stupid, I commented on an F-4 fighter thread running on my Facebook news feed.
Air-Minded: Gunship Photoblogging
The Pima Air & Space Museum restoration team rolled out our Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship earlier this week. I mentioned this helicopter in an earlier post, after seeing it partially disassembled in the restoration hangar. I was particularly struck by the robust transmission, which would not look out of place in a battleship’s engine room. […]
Air-Minded: Behind the Curve
Seriously, would you ever fly that carrier again?
Air-Minded: Dragging It In
Obviously we don’t yet know what happened to cause Asiana Flight 214 to crash at San Francisco International last Saturday. Anything I say will be speculative, but based on what I’ve seen, heard, and read to date, it sure looks like the pilots, through their own actions or inactions, got low and slow on final […]
Air-Minded: Bullets, Buffs, and the Contra-Rotating Nissen Hut
Although, if you think about it, next to a 155mm Howitzer round 30mm is downright small … harmless by comparison!
Air-Minded: Phantom Evolution (Updated)
Did you think, as I did, that the TFX/F-111 was Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s only joint-service aircraft project? No, there were two others: the F-4 Phantom II and the A-7 Corsair II, US Navy fighters more or less forced upon, but eventually enthusiastically adopted by, the US Air Force. I volunteer as a walking tour […]
Air-Minded: Rotorhead Photoblogging
Fascination and fear: that sums up my relationship with helicopters. The thought of being able to take off and land vertically, and to hover at will, is entrancing: if I had the money I’d learn to fly one. And then an inner voice speaks up: “What about all those moving parts? One bolt snaps and […]