Air-Minded: Behind the Curve
Seriously, would you ever fly that carrier again?
Air-Minded: Dragging It In
Obviously we don’t yet know what happened to cause Asiana Flight 214 to crash at San Francisco International last Saturday. Anything I say will be speculative, but based on what I’ve seen, heard, and read to date, it sure looks like the pilots, through their own actions or inactions, got low and slow on final […]
Tuesday Bag o’ Brains
You might think it’s a stretch to compare PowerPoint to the Catholic church, but you know how they say once a Catholic, always a Catholic? Yeah, it’s like that, apparently.
Air-Minded: Bullets, Buffs, and the Contra-Rotating Nissen Hut
Although, if you think about it, next to a 155mm Howitzer round 30mm is downright small … harmless by comparison!
Sunday Bag o’ Mules
Mules, local color, wannabes.
Thursday Bag o’ Godlessness
A friend visited last night and talked us into streaming a couple of episodes of Saving Grace, a cable TV series that ran from 2007 to 2010. We’d never seen it and our friend gave it rave reviews, so I found it on Amazon Prime and we settled in to watch. I loved the lead […]
Air-Minded: Phantom Evolution (Updated)
Did you think, as I did, that the TFX/F-111 was Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s only joint-service aircraft project? No, there were two others: the F-4 Phantom II and the A-7 Corsair II, US Navy fighters more or less forced upon, but eventually enthusiastically adopted by, the US Air Force. I volunteer as a walking tour […]
Air-Minded: Rotorhead Photoblogging
Fascination and fear: that sums up my relationship with helicopters. The thought of being able to take off and land vertically, and to hover at will, is entrancing: if I had the money I’d learn to fly one. And then an inner voice speaks up: “What about all those moving parts? One bolt snaps and […]