May 2025 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the twenty-second edition of the newsletter. Please click the links in the newsletter for the articles, (or the link below it) to open the attachment. Note on a phone you may not see the newsletter and need to click the download link to download the PDF and view it. Please feel […]
The Perfect Plan, Maybe
It was a perfect plan, until it almost wasn’t. We planned a ski trip to our place in Colorado, but I was in California and Kathy was going to start the trip in Utah and end it in Idaho. How do you make that work? With a Mooney of course. After taking a commercial flight […]
Skunk Works
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed By Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos is the story of the legendary Lockheed Skunk Works. The Skunk Works developed the U-2, SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor, and F-35 Lightning II. This is the story of the development of the U-2, SR-71 and F-117 […]
Winds, Ice, and Oh My!
The winds were strong, there was ice in the clouds, and the “Oh My!” was actually “Oh @*!#” No, it wasn’t bad or dangerous, just something my wife wasn’t expecting at the time. With my second son at college in St. George like his older brother, and my wife’s dad living in St. George, it’s […]
April 2025 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the twenty-first edition of the newsletter. Please click the links in the newsletter for the articles, (or the link below it) to open the attachment. Note on a phone you may not see the newsletter and need to click the download link to download the PDF and view it. Please feel […]
That’s Why We Set Goals
We set goals, not because we will always reach them, but because they give us something to strive for.
Vulcan 607
The Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber was a beast of a plane. With its giant delta wing and 4 engines generating a combined 88,000 lbs of thrust it left an indelible impression on anyone who saw it fly. When the Falklands Islands War broke out between Argentina and the United Kingdom the Vulcan was […]
You Never Know Who You’ll Meet
For everything that I can list about General Aviation that I love, I can find something about Commercial Aviation that falls somewhere between annoying and detestable. This isn’t a knock against those of you that make a living flying the aluminum cattle cars through the sky, I appreciate what you do, and every one of […]
March 2025 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the twentieth edition of the newsletter. Please click the links in the newsletter for the articles, (or the link below it) to open the attachment. Note on a phone you may not see the newsletter and need to click the download link to download the PDF and view it. Please feel […]
Turbulence is Where You Find It
Measuring Turbulence My wife has developed her tolerance for the bumps over the years that we have flown. In the first few hundred hours of flight, I would later learn, there were times that she would picture the grandkids faces as we bumped along to keep her focused on “why” she was making the flight. […]
Fly Girls
The true story of Florence Klingensmith, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, and Louise Thaden and how they shaped aviation.
February 2025 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the nineteenth edition of the newsletter. Please click the links in the newsletter for the articles, (or the link below it) to open the attachment. Note on a phone you may not see the newsletter and need to click the download link to download the PDF and view it. Please feel […]
