Show & Tell
The dog ate my book report, but I do have show & tell
Air-Minded: Gunship Photoblogging
The Pima Air & Space Museum restoration team rolled out our Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship earlier this week. I mentioned this helicopter in an earlier post, after seeing it partially disassembled in the restoration hangar. I was particularly struck by the robust transmission, which would not look out of place in a battleship’s engine room. […]
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 […]