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I supposed it had to happen eventually, everybody has one in time. And I had mine yesterday. It was a good hop, really. Raging around down low, hiding in the mountains, waiting for a chance to pounce on the unwary. Although this is graduation week at the (prestigious) Navy Fighter Weapons School, and there [...]  Which, it was right about then that I wondered if I was supposed to put my iPhone into “Airplane” mode before take-0ff. There are very few things to admire about a 0500 brief on a Saturday morning. The Weapons School lost some sorties during the course of the week due to weather, and quality being the measure by which all things are reckoned, they would have to be made up. But still. Fifteen degrees Fahrenheit on [...] I’m on the early page it seems, with the 0515 brief burned into my forehead. And the late go as well, so long as your definition of “late” is expansive enough to admit a 1215 brief, 1400 take-off, and 1500 land. With the debrief to follow. Well within the limits of crew day, mind. [...] I am an admittedly early riser (and am often late to bed), having been broken of that comfortable junior officer habit of sleeping on both ears until the noontime bell some years ago. “Eight hours sleep per day,” we used to say on deployment, adding that, “whatever you get at night is gravy.” To [...] Honestly, I never gave the whirly-gigs that much thought, back before my son opted to fly them. Now I find that they’re on my mind pretty much all the time. This sucks: Seven U.S. Marines were killed when two helicopters collided Wednesday night during training in a remote area of far southeastern Imperial County, near the California-Arizona border. Six were from Camp Pendleton and another was from the Marine air station at Yuma, Ariz. There were no survivors aboard the aircraft, the [...] Kid had a pretty good run: Flying Officer Derek Allen crammed more aviation heroics into eight days than many RAF comrades did in six years of World War II. The 22-year-old flyer saw frenetic fighting almost every day in his short career and was credited with four outright and three shared enemy kills. He [...] There’s a lot of things I miss about being in the Navy, and in naval aviation particularly. This, not so much. It’s very important for the general aviation cohort to check them prior to embarking on a cross-country. Especially if you’re muling drugs: As Air Force One sat on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport this morning, the North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to intercept a small private plane [...] |
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