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There I was at 30,000 feet
Two words: holy shit! In the aftermath of an airplane crash all manner of misinformation hits the news. It’s even worse if there are a lot of witnesses. You’d think it would be otherwise, but people are in general terrible witnesses, especially when they see something shocking and violent, something that happens in the blink […]
When I lead visitors on walking tours at the Pima Air & Space Museum, we start underneath a replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer. I think about Orville and Wilbur often. They showed us the way, and the F-15 Eagle I flew in the US Air Force used the same three-axis controls the Wrights developed […]
Pima Air & Space Museum is determined to keep me on my toes. PASM is closing the normal entrance area for a month, and guests will now be entering the main hangar from the gift shop. Before, my walking tour started underneath the replica of the Wright Flyer. Now it’ll start smack in the middle […]
Today’s Pima Air & Space Museum tours were interesting. I had a group of 14-15 schoolkids for the first tour, kids who mostly appeared to be around ten to eleven years old. There were three adults with them, so at least they were chaperoned. Nice kids, but easily distracted. The number one question of the […]
Very sore this morning. Yesterday the dermatologist removed a sebaceous cyst from the top of my scalp. There must be a lot of stitches … I can’t count them yet because the bandage doesn’t come off for another hour … but however many there are, they’re tight, tight, tight. A poor man’s facelift! I’m sporting […]
Last week I noticed they’d moved several outdoor aircraft at the Pima Air & Space Museum, opening up a big empty area behind Hangar One. When I showed up for my tour yesterday there was our F-15A, once hidden in the back reaches of the museum’s 300 acres, newly on display alongside the path between […]
Our son Gregory arrived late Wednesday evening. He’ll stay here with our grandson Quentin until Wednesday, when they drive home to Las Vegas. We had a great few days with Quentin, but now we can turn the keep-the-eight-year-old-entertained duties to Greg. Later today we three lads will visit Hooters for the traditional photo op; tonight […]
Air-minded. Wow. There’s a phrase I haven’t heard since I was an air-minded kid. I ran into it again this morning in an online article at The Awl. “Are You Airminded?” The Slang Of War “Airmindedness” is a term that used to be everywhere and now it’s nowhere. The word, as defined by the OED, […]