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Category Archives: Flying
Teaching Speed – The Basics
Yesterday, I wrote about the extremes – flying high or low, fast or slow. I like the extremes and feel as if the heart of the envelope could be, well, somewhat boring from the standpoint of flying. The main thing … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying, Teaching
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Tagged aerodynamic control, flight instructor, flying, helping your students “get it”, inexperienced pilots, motorists, mountains, pilots, stall speed, steep hills, student pilots, Teaching Speed, the gas pedal, total aircraft control, young flight instructor
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Extremes
I like the extremes, except when it comes to the cold. After the month of September, I cannot go further north than Jacksonville. It is just far too cold that far north. I think my dislike of the cold stems … Continue reading →
Cats, Friends, and Growing Up
My friend, Bill, lost his cat, Mr. Mouse, of 19 1/2 years. That’s a long time for a cat. It is a long time for any kind of an animal. It is especially hard losing a good and faithful companion … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged cats, Cats Friends and Growing Up, EA6-B, friends, Guantanamo, lost friends, Memorial Day, Mr. Mouse, Navy, shipmates, Spike, USS John F. Kennedy, Veteran’s Day
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The New Airplanista is Here!
Here it is, October 1. This is the launch date of the new electronic magazine Airplanista. If you like airplanes, all kinds of airplanes, from Jenny’s to jets to ultralights to antique Cessnas and Pipers to biplanes and sailplanes and … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged Airplanista, Airshow, and Tim Plunkett’s World War I Aviation Collection, Corky Fornof, Daytona Beach, Greg Poe, Jason Newberg, Julie Clark, Matt Chapman, Mike Goulian, Mike Wiskus, October 8 – 10, P-51 Mustang, Rob Holland, The New Airplanista is Here!, the Skytypers, the Snowbirds Demonstration Team, U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet, United States Air Force’s F-22 Raptor and F-16 Viper, Wings and Waves Air Show
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Airplanista – A New Aviation Magazine
Heads-up: a new aviation electronic magazine is set to break out on Friday, October 1 and you really should make sure to check out the first issue. Airplanista is the brain-child of Dan Pimentel, an aviator from Oregon who has … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Publishing, Reading, Writing
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Tagged airplanes, Airplanista, aviation magazine, aviation photography, aviation stories, electronic magazine, flying articles
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Timing is Everything
Somewhere out at sea tonight, Navy pilots will finish up their mission briefs and then, just like in the movies, they will sync up their watches. What they are doing is synchronizing their wristwatches with the PLAT (pilot landing aid … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged Angels 15, ball call, bolter, bombs on target, flight discipline, Fresnel lens, holding pattern, hook skip bolter, LSO, marshal, meatball, mission briefs, Navy pilots, PLAT (pilot landing aid television), platform, push time, Somewhere out at sea, synchronizing their wristwatches, the flight deck, Timing is Everything, “out of the wires”, “Paddles”
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The Cessna 150
If you go to an airshow featuring Naval Aviators, you may see one or two of the more experienced pilots walking around with patches on their flight jackets proclaiming, “1000 hours” or “2000 hours” in a particular tactical aircraft. … Continue reading →
Landings
There are some things magical and mystical about coming back to earth after flying. I can still hear Charlie saying, “Any monkey can fly, you can train a monkey to takeoff and fly. The first astronauts were monkeys. The person … Continue reading →
Math in English
Did you know there is math in English? I majored in journalism just to avoid having to deal with mathematics. And then, just when I thought I was safe from the numbers, the principles of math leap from the written … Continue reading →
Posted in Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged engineering, English, logical math, majored in journalism, math courses, Math in English, mathematics, newspaper writing styles, numbers, numbers must agree, subject verb agreement, your paycheck
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The Summer of ’86
My birthday is in June and Paul’s follows in July. I have known Paul since fifth grade, when we were in Mrs. Waterhouse’s class together. Fifth grade was a long time ago. Right after we got to know one another, … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged $3 the ride, 4g pull, Alberto Santos-Dumont, barnstormers, best friends, birthdays, Colonel Ernie Moser, Demoiselle, Ernest K. Gann, flying wires and drag wires, gypsy pilots, hammerhead turn, hopping passengers, Jack Nicholson, Jim Moser, Morgan Freeman, open cockpit biplanes, ride of a lifetime, The Bucket List, touring the beach, Waco UPF-7
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