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Celebrate July 4th by Going Flying!

June 5th, 2009 · Comments Off

The latest AOPA newsletter has this segment included: Celebrate your freedom to fly This year, celebrate July 4 by taking wing! For 233 years, America has led the world in defining and defending individual freedoms. Our unwavering commitment to these ideals has brought us rewards unimagined by the generations who passed them on. Among them [...]

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I Don’t Know

March 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I will apologize now. This is going to be a rant.  I’ve waited a few days to write this, but I feel that it still needs to be said.

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Airline Trip Report

March 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’ve taken a few photos on my last three airline trips and haven’t had time to post them, so I’ll combine them into a long post today. There are 18 photos and a map excerpt from Google Earth. I’ll make each one a link to a larger version of the photo so you can look [...]

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A lesson to learn from USAir 1549

January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Lesson is in the Location I imagine by now we have heard just about enough concerning the ditching of USAir flight 1549 in the Hudson. The talking heads on all the television channels have beat the story to death. As far as I can tell, the only thing they haven’t done is track down [...]

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