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  • A Beautiful Weekend for Flying

    I finally couldn’t take it any more this weekend. Clear blue skies, hardly any wind and temperatures pushing 70 deg . I headed out to the airport around  9 am  Saturday and was in the air by 11:30. The time between was spent visiting with/helping my friend in the hangar across the taxiway from me…

  • A Flight with a Lesson

    Today was a really beautiful day for flying – clear, cool and light winds. I figured that I ought to take advantage of the nice day  while I could. When I got the the airport the temperature was 28 degrees(F) and there were already a couple of planes in the pattern.  There was also a…

  • Down Time Again

    I haven’t had any actual flying posts lately because I haven’t been flying.  It’s the time of year that the Swift’s annual inspection is due – the end of October to be exact.  I started the inspection a couple of weeks ago and was promptly sidetracked by other projects at home. So far I have…

  • Swifts and Articles for September 30, 2011

    This was really a slow week for the kinds of aviation articles that I like to pass along to you. To give this article a little more body I’ll combine it with a little coverage of the West Coast Swift Fly-in that I attended last weekend. I do have one link which I’ll put at…

  • Aviation Articles for July 1, 2011

    Is it already the July 4th weekend? Here are some flying stories that you may have missed this week: Something to do between graduation and full employment This article is from the Daily Bruin. Shana had just graduated from UCLA with a degree in economics and had some time off before her employer needed her…