Those of you who have been visiting this site for a while have, I hope, noticed that I recently made a few design changes in an effort to get a little more aviation into this aviation blog. I have four boxes of 35mm slides that I have taken over the years, beginning in the early [...]
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Around The Pattern With More Airplanes
January 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: Aviation News · Sport Flying
Aviation New Year’s Resolutions – 2009
December 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
This is the time of year for all of us to look back and reflect on our flying experiences in 2008. We all have different views of what has happened in our aviation lives. Professional pilots will look back and see some flight departments closing or downsizing while others upgraded equipment. Airlines disappeared or merged [...]
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Security Directives and TSA Hearings
December 18th, 2008 · Comments Off
A couple of items came out in the news today that I want to pass along in case you missed them. The first is from an AOPA article in their Government Advocacy section concerning new pilot security procedures. It seems that the TSA has issued a security directive that will require all pilots based at [...]
Tags: Aviation News
Big Tow Little Tow
December 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Traffic was backed up a little as we were leaving Tokyo the other day which meant we had to to wait in line on the parallel for our turn to take off. We happened to stop just abeam a parking apron where a maintenance crew was readying a 747 for tow. They were using one [...]
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