Get Your Exhaust Checked aka “A Colonoscopy”
If you’re over 45 you need a colonoscopy. I hope this humorous take on mine might help coax you along.
Squeeze Play – From #5 to #1 for Landing
After an aerial tour of Los Angeles the tower put me into a squeeze play that took me from #5 in the landing sequence to #1. It was great!
Flight Canceled and Sunday Afternoon Therapy
Sometimes you just can’t fly because the chance of icing is too great.
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
There are few books that can capture the excitement of aerial combat, the mind numbing boredom of “flying a desk,” and the strain that military life during war and peacetime place upon relationships. Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds is one of those books. Robin’s memoirs cover three decades of military service. […]
April 2024 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the ninth 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 […]
Some Lady Named Marie Osmond and 60+mph Headwinds
The Mooney Time Machine has taken the 6 hour drive to St George down to a 2 hour flight, and we love it.
I Just Needed 3:51 to get to 1,000
When I passed my PPL check ride, 1,000 hours seemed like an eternity away. But, like anything else that seems overwhelming, just take it one step at a time.
Baa Baa Black Sheep: The True Story of the “Bad Boy” Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous Black Sheep Squadron
Baa Baa Blacksheep: The True Story of the “Bad Boy” Hero of the Pacific Theatre and His Famous Black Sheep Squadron by Gregory “Pappy” Boyington is a candid look into his life and career in and out of the military.
So I walked Home from the Airport
A diversion to Durango (KDRO) for weather. Borrowing a crew car, and then sneaking out ahead of a snow storm. After almost 700 miles of flying, I was walking home.
March 2024 Newsletter
I hope you enjoy the eight 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 […]
A Quick Trip to Utah for Family
Only in the Mooney Time Machine. In about 36 hours I got to meet up with my wife in Utah, see our newest grandson, celebrate an engagement, a birthday, and be back home.
A Wing and a Prayer: The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group
A Wing and a Prayer: The “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II by Harry H. Crosby is an excellent, well written account of the air war over Europe and life on the ground for US Airmen.
