You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?
Happy Labor Day to my American readers.
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.
TGIF Rants & Updates
Recent posts here have been almost entirely domestic. What can a Tucson-based blogger say about events that’ll make the slightest difference? Still, one tries to keep a hand in. On the Air India crash: the engines on those Boeing 787s produce more than enough thrust to make up for forgetting to set flaps and slats […]
Monday Bag o’ Whatever
From all I can see, most Los Angelenos continue to go about their daily business, unaware of the protests Trump & company are calling an insurrection. Then again, if anyone knows what an insurrection is, it would be Trump.
Air-Minded: Seaplane Fetish Photoblog
The Philippine Mars is one of two surviving Martin JRM-1 seaplanes built for the U.S. Navy in World War II.
Memorium
I wrote this post ten years ago and am moving it back to the top of the blog for Memorial Day.
Jonesing for Attention (and Other Hot Takes)
My pen pal, like me a retired military officer, says he’s ready to quit reading and watching the news altogether, because everything’s political and both sides and so on.