Air-Minded: Hymn, Hymn … (Updated)
Remember that episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one where everyone bursts into song? Bear with me, because I’m in a musical mood today.
"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
What was (and might have been)
Remember that episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one where everyone bursts into song? Bear with me, because I’m in a musical mood today.
It’s not exactly an aviation story, or a Christmas one either, but it’s aviation-adjacent and that’s not all: there’s winter, snow, and a happy ending.
In past years I marked Pearl Harbor day with social media and blog posts of my own. I didn’t feel like it this time around. What else is there to say that I haven’t already? It’s not my generation’s memory, or yours for that matter.
Funny how that desk doesn’t look so tiny when real presidents sit behind it, huh?
Couldn’t be the same guy, I thought. There must be lots of O’Gradys.
Well, another year shot to hell.
Not that many years ago I could have gotten in serious trouble for even confessing to flying against a MiG, never mind sharing the details.
Moving this older post back to the top of the blog with a fresh update about another mixed-power aircraft I missed the first time around: the Navy’s North American AJ Savage. — Paul Props and jets on the same aircraft, that is. Last year, when I visited the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California, […]