News and Opinion
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Flying Stories for November 23, 2012
Time goes by really fast in the holiday season. I’m surprised that the stores don’t already have Valentine’s decorations on the walls… I haven’t had much luck in the flying article area lately – it has been taking me a couple of weeks to gather any kind of meaningful list. I’ll keep trying. I didn’t…
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Flying Stories for November 9, 2012
Yes, I missed my publishing deadline on the 2nd – I was out flying both days. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it… Last weekend I took part the “World Domination – the Day of the Swift”.” One of our Swift Association members got the idea of trying to get as many Swifts into…
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Flying Stories for October 26, 2012
I only have one article this week – about model airplanes. But I do have a few photos I took while flying this weekend. While the east coast is getting hammered we are having beautiful weather. Near calm winds, moderate temperatures and clear skies. I had no choice but to take advantage of the great…
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Flying Stories for October 19, 2012
No flying this week. I had planned on taking in a local pancake breakfast on Saturday, but the winds were already gusting to 20 mph at 9 am. If I lived in the flatlands that probably wouldn’t have been too bad, but up here in the mountains that kind of wind makes the turbulence something…
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Flying Stories for October 12, 2012
Either I’m getting pickier, or the number of good aviation articles has really fried up. There are still plenty of writers for the general and ‘breaking’ news, but I haven’t been running across many in the human interest category lately. No flying this week, but I did manage to pass my third class medical, though.…
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Flying Stories for October 5, 2012
Not too many article links this week, but I did manage to get the Swift in the air again. I have been trying to get together with my friend in the hangar across from me. I had taken him up in the 145-HP Swift I used to have and said I’d show him the difference…