Catalina Airport, 21 MAR 10.
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For a Saturday. Hit Gillespie at 1000 for to add some hours to the total in tailwheel aircraft. Citabria 8643 beckoning, like. On account of I have the keys. Out past El Capitan to work on the airmanship bit. Prior to heading up to Ramona, for to practice landings. Once back at Gillespie I found a Bücker [...] This is one of the reasons that I myself was not much given to the whole “flyover” enthusiasm. People could see. There was an (I assume) very occasional reader y-clept Doedo who used to drop in on me in PM whilst I was working on my tailwheel qual to offer encouragement and advice. Mentioned that the Travelair I hope to someday fly was something of a dog contrasted to his own machine, the Bücker Jungmann Bü-131. [...] The Senate does something useful, while awaiting the House to gain enough votes to “deem” the Senate’s version of health care reform as having passed: The Senate late Tuesday unanimously passed a proposal that would dramatically boost the number of flight hours that commercial co-pilots must have before they can fly passengers. Moving forward [...] It’s easy to judge now, from a distance. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks at work, as I’ve been assigned a new position while still keeping the plates spinning on the old one and trying to find a replacement that can plausibly step in, get the work done and guard the company’s equities. Things were much easier back in the day, [...] Army’s first monoplane. $10,000 new off the line. Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com I believe they go a bit higher, these days. The Kat asked me about the F-35 tonight at dinner. I started to tell her about engine choices and performance margins and such, but then I switched to the Electro-Optical Distributed Awareness System, or DAS. As marketing goes, it’s pretty fricken’ cool. We’ll see what delivers. PS, she asked me: You miss it, don’t you? Yeah. Yeah, I do. With a name like “Skye,” what’s a brother to do? A man who stole a plane from Montgomery Field in San Diego, then flew the single-engine aircraft to Palm Springs and on to Los Angeles International Airport, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of using an airplane without the owner’s permission.Skye Turner, 23, will be [...] |
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