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Ramblings about flying for fun and profit

Commemorative Air Force

  • Aviation Articles for December 9, 2011

    I’m a little late with my link post this week. The weather has been beautiful – clear, dry and calm, but a bit chilly.  I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go out flying yesterday.  Good times. Here are some flying stories you may have missed this week. Cucumbers to Clecos This one is from…

  • Aviation Articles for July 8, 2011

    This week was another of those weeks relatively lacking in the type of articles I pass along.  Some weeks I have too many to choose from, other  weeks I don’t run into anything until Friday morning. I guess on those really article-packed weeks I need to set aside the extra articles for a ‘rainy week.’…

  • A Nice Day at the Golden West Fly-in

    I actually got the Swift out of the hangar and into the air this weekend. The 2011 Golden West Fly-in was going on in Marysville, CA (KMYV). I flew ‘over the hill’ with a friend who was flying his RV-6A – well, we were going at the same time, but took slightly different routes and…