[having trouble getting pix off the camera onto the computer – will be added later] Not quite an alpine start, but everything in aviation does take a little longer. The […]

One of the five pillars of Islam is the Hajj, the obligation that every able-bodied Muslims make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their life. Any pilot will […]

For the past two weeks, I’ve been immersed in a whole different kind of second life. Sure, I’ve dipped into Linden Labs very excellent (and addictive) virtual world, but never […]

It’s that kind of day at Sheble. Hot as hell by the time I roll into the airport at 6:45. “Senior” (what everyone calls Mr. Sheble himself) is in the […]

The first thing that hit me when I got off the plane in Las Vegas is that I never really appreciated just how hot the atmosphere can really get when […]

I don’t know how to feel about the Air Force Museum at Castle. It’s probably the largest, most impressive collection of fighting aircraft on display anywhere outside of Dayton, stretching […]

Why is there so much poetry in departures? God knows how many forests, let alone poets, have died trying to explain it. For me, it’s something existential: up to this […]

Way back in 1993, when the web was brand new and Usenet was still king, I posted what amounts to a proto-blog (ulog?), a chronicle of my 13-day trip ferrying […]