Air-Minded: A Matter of Some Gravity
Here’s a way to think about pulling Gs and why it hurts: if you weigh 200 pounds, at 9 Gs you’ll weigh 1,800. Consider that for a moment. Ready for your centrifuge ride?
Postoperative Postflight
TIL (today I learned) that a tube of flavored Chapstick, placed in a drawer ten years ago and then forgotten, goes rancid.
Is It Bad of Me to Gloat?
Itazuke Tower, this is Air Force 801.
Job Number One
Job number one is to clear your flight path and not hit shit.
Air-Minded: Contraband Crocodile
Snakes on a plane, meet contraband crocodile.
Air-Minded: Zulu Nostalgia
I read something yesterday and had a nostalgia attack. There are days I really miss the Air Force!
Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXIV
Photos from today’s visit to Pima Air and Space Museum.
Air-Minded: Habu
SR-71s were generally called Blackbirds, but the ones at Kadena were nicknamed Habus after the venomous pit vipers native to Okinawa.