Last month, after much experimentation with hand-crafted Excel workbooks and casting about for freeware options, I somewhat resentfully purchased an electronic log book, in an admittedly Quixotic attempt to make some sense of my past life and combine its DNA with that of my recent endeavors. There are inconsistencies between the way that the Navy [...]
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We’ve already discussed how important it is to leave the rollers up when landing aquatically. Today we shall demonstrate that the converse is also true: Poor old amphib. Some people just have too many options. By the way, full videos of Canada’s Northwest Territories “Ice Pilots” may be found here, courtesy of occasional reader Ian. Have some, courtesy of occasional reader Rich. It’s at the Udvar-Hazy overflow museum at Dulles, apparently. For you P-38 lovers, the one in the museum was crated up after serving in New Guinea in WWII-it still has caked on mud when it was shipped from there! The FW-190 was found to have at least 7 layers of markings [...] The grotesquely named Apple iPad – which apparently broke the internets – has great potential as an electronic flight bag, and may well end up a category killer for legacy equipment. There are pdf applications for Amazon.com’s Kindle that allow assiduous aviators to download airport diagrams, departure procedures, arrivals and approach plates, but from everything I’ve [...] Two hops today, and it was something of a blessing, for it’s been that wet and trashy down Sandy Eggo way over the last many several. Howling winds and rain coming sideways, the usual collapse of civilization on the freeways, as stolid commuters obtusely denied the possibility of rain slicked highways contributing to mishaps. After [...] Three priorities are drilled into every fledgling naval aviator’s head from the day he starts flight school: Aviate, navigate, communicate – in that order. The first and eternal priority is to maintain control of the aircraft and try to keep it in the middle of the sky, staying clear of all the edges. Having done so, [...] January 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Flying, Navy, sea stories | Category: Flying, Navy, sea stories | 19 comments
‘Twas two hops yesterday down at the customary, the first being a multi-generational affair with pops paying for Grampa Art to fly against his very own son, Amon y-clept and an ostensible 8th grader, the whole passle of them but recently ridden in from Tuscon. I say “ostensible,” for just like the carnival we have [...] Each morning, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, I get an email from FlightAware.com showing me pretty pitchers. Of airplanes. Today’s email exposed me to the existence of the Brasilian Smoke Squadron (who knew?) and the perils of unpowered aviation. But it also exposed me to the Dehaviland DH-3T Turbo Otter sea plane, from Air Saguenay. [...] A charming little video of a Supermarine Spitfire being put through its paces. There is a moment there when the machine is in a minimum radius turn to the right that I found myself seeing her as an adversary might have in air combat. The last thing you would have seen in your life was [...] A cool simulation of Captain Sullenburger’s ditching. Surprising that those geese were flying so high. Sounds good on the radio. |
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