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Ramblings about flying for fun and profit


News and Opinion

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Flying Stories for September 28, 2012

    No flying this week but I did spend some time out at the hangar. Most of the time I was cleaning up the ‘debris’ from the Races – taking out the trash and putting everything back where it normally resides. I push the Swift back in a corner and put a table and chairs in…

  • Flying Stories for September 21, 2012

    Yes, I know I’m a bit late with some aviation article links.  September is really a busy month around here and frankly for quite a while I wasn’t finding any articles I was willing to pass along. I did finally get back into the air with the Swift, though. I tried about a month ago,…

  • Flying Stories for August 24, 2012

    I was going to wait until Sunday to write this because I thought I was finally going to get the Swift out of the hangar and blow the dust off. There is an airshow/fly-in at the South Lake Tahoe (KTVL) airport this weekend that I was planning on attending. So much for plans – I…

  • Flying Stories for August 17, 2012

    Another week without flying. If the thunderstorms weren’t building the smoke was thick in the valley – sometimes both were present. We have been in a cycle of storm days this week. They usually start to our south and move through the area.  Not something I mess with in the mountains.  I have a friend…