{"id":63,"date":"2005-10-02T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2023-02-01T06:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:58:02","slug":"sunday-flying-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Air-Minded: Sunday Flying Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What fun! Went flying with a buddy this morning, a retired USAF lieutenant colonel with a background in B-52s and C-130s. He knows people I flew with, I know people he flew with, and, like me, he was once a headquarters flight safety chief. Running out of things to talk about was never a problem.<\/p>\n<p>We flew from Tucson IAP to an uncontrolled airstrip outside of Benson, Arizona, borrowed the airfield courtesy car for a breakfast run into Benson, then flew back to Tucson, managing to work in a flyover of my house on the way. Nice way to spend a Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think I&#8217;m doing suspiciously well for a school bus driver, he rented the plane, and all I had to do was pay for breakfast and do some of the flying.<\/p>\n<p>For your amusement, a couple of photos:<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"100-0002_IMG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/32175310546\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/1\/546\/32175310546_94af460cfc_z.jpg\" alt=\"100-0002_IMG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><center>The other guy was as big as me &#8230; a tight squeeze<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"100-0003_IMG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/31403118413\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/392\/31403118413_3a17670156_z.jpg\" alt=\"100-0003_IMG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><center>A grand old bird &#8211; note the lubricant catchment reservoirs (if this were a military aircraft, that&#8217;s what we would have called them, and we&#8217;d have paid some contractor $10,000 per unit)<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"100-0005_IMG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/31837862380\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/1\/443\/31837862380_9fc024be59_z.jpg\" alt=\"100-0005_IMG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p><center>Donna&#8217;s in the back yard reseeding our grass, but we couldn&#8217;t get low enough to catch that level of detail, nor did she notice us circling overhead<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p>While I was taking photos of our neighborhood, Flying Booger, my hashing alter ego, was scoping out utility rights of way, shortcuts, game trails, and hidden washes &#8230; I have a feeling the next time he hares we&#8217;re going to end up at Casa de Booger.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?page_id=14450\"><strong> back to the Air-Minded Index<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What fun! Went flying with a buddy this morning, a retired USAF lieutenant colonel with a background in B-52s and C-130s. He knows people I flew with, I know people he flew with, and, like me, he was once a headquarters flight safety chief. Running out of things to talk about was never a problem. 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