Air-Minded: Tailhooks & Wing Landings (Updated 9/4/21)
A couple of recent stories in the news caught my eye and brought back memories.
Thursday Takes
Donna’s always coming up with ingenious ways to fix things and make them better. In another life, she’d have been an engineer. Wait. She’s an engineer in this life, minus the degree.
Boomer Yells at Clouds
How hard can it be to write a damn headline? Why does the person who wrote that shit have a cushy job at a major newspaper and not me? Am I being too picky?
Paul’s Book Reviews
Six short book reviews: fiction, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, young adult
Getting Out
Can there be anything more courageous and self-sacrificing right now than guarding the perimeter of the airport in Kabul?
Strapology (Plus the Return of YCRT!)
By the way, that disparaging stereotype about fighter pilots — big Seiko, little dick? — please don’t ask Donna. She’s likely to blurt out the truth.
Air-Minded: Doing More With Less
The Air Force wants to train more new pilots and pump them out quicker. To achieve this goal, it’s making changes to its pilot training program.
DOGREP: Untangled
Braunschweiger. I knew that stuff had to be good for something.