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Tag Archives: Alberto Santos-Dumont
It’s Another Year
Well, until today, I was older than my best friend, Paul. Today, he is as old as I am. Unfortunately, we both went over the hill a long time ago. In other words, we are a couple of old fa… … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, History, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged a damn Yankee, a lifetime of gratitude, Alberto Santos-Dumont, barnstormers, biplanes, gypsy pilots, in the fifth grade, It’s Another Year, It’s [a] old Southern joke!, my best friend Paul, my only interest was jets, over the hill, the Demoiselle, the First World War, the summer of 1986, the Sunshine State, the War Between the States, ultralight airplanes
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Where Did the Time Go?
Yesterday, you may have noticed there was no post. It is rare that I don’t post my daily blog. Since I started the blog, I only missed one other—Valentine’s Day. I would say, “For obvious reasons,” but it would not … Continue reading →
Posted in Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 71-year-old flight instructors, Alberto Santos-Dumont, discussions that went far beyond the topics of typical teenagers, getting us into trouble, hit the wrong switch, I thought of those times from long ago, introducing the boys to flying real airplanes, just missed a day, learning fly in rickety 25-year-old steel tube and fabric airplanes, my friend’s juvenile bedroom, posting my daily blog, red sneakers stuck in a closet talking to one another, sibling shenanigans, stretching parental nerves, talking about grownup things, talking all about our lifetimes, the Demoiselle, the look of horror on the faces of their parents, they were very naturally gifted writers, Until we meet again Papa..., Valentine’s Day, we discussed dinosaurs, we discussed Mars, we discussed places beyond our solar system, we discussed Saturn, we discussed space travel, we dreamed dreams, we learned things others could not, we learned things others did not, we learned things others were not interested in, We talked of aerodynamics and flying, We were children then, went back over five decades, Where Did the Time Go?, World War I aircraft, yes we were nerds, “For obvious reasons”
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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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