Long Time No See
Along with an anxious nation, I’ve been following news of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization.
Air-Minded: Mid-Airs on the Ground (Updated)
One of several USAF mishap investigations I oversaw as chief of flight safety for Pacific Air Forces in the early 1990s was a runway collision between two F-16 fighters at an air base in Korea.
Better Late than Never
How weird is it that two of the three college friends I’m still close to today also have October birthdays?
Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVI
Photoblog of a visit to Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona
Air-Minded: the End of the Whip
This won’t be any kind of organized Air-Minded post, more a collection of thoughts & memories. But there’s a theme, and it’s flying in formation.
Air-Minded: Radio Voice
If there’s anything worse in military aviation than losing your shit on the radio, I don’t know what it is.
Air-Minded: To Fly, Fight … and Twerk?
I was around in the boys’ club days of the Air Force, when NCO and officers’ clubs would bring in strippers, hard-working women who earned every dollar we stuffed in their G strings while fending off our drunken attempts to grope them. Nothing but respect. But those days are over.
Air-Minded: Nostalgia
That, right there, is where I spent the first four years of my flying career: Vance AFB in Enid, Oklahoma.