"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
There I was at 30,000 feet
If everything was right with the world, we’d be packing for a seven-day road trip. The plan was to leave tomorrow, take our time driving through New Mexico to see friends in southwestern Colorado, then leisurely make our way back to Arizona through Utah and the Navaho Nation. Alas, not everything is right with the […]
What’s interesting about this short video clip is that it shows a bare-naked F-15 taking off, a rare event. You see, a naked fighter is useless … it carries no weapons and can’t perform any of its combat missions. They don’t let you fly ’em naked because they aren’t supposed to fly naked. This Oregon […]
The first time I landed an F-15 Eagle, from the front of a two-seater family model at Luke AFB, Arizona, I was amazed at how softly it touched down.
It was announced today that a gifted Qatari Boeing 747-8 is set to enter service as a temporary Air Force One, pending the 2028 delivery of two new USAF B747-8s scheduled to replace the current B747s, which have been in service since the Reagan administration. The “bridge” Air Force One (as well as the permanent […]
… I saw plenty of Belgian Mirage IIIs during my time in NATO, and once had a semi-close encounter with a pair of French ones while on a cross-country to Spain, a story worth sharing here.
… that’s just me, trying to anticipate what Congress, the Department of Defense, and the USAF will do … even though I know these days that’s a sucker’s game.
Confession time: Donna and I didn’t turn out for the No Kings protest yesterday.
… in a hard-drinking profession, you’ve got to be able to hold your liquor.