Aviation Dreamland
I really don’t know where to start. Do I start with pushing the throttle forward on 1400 hp of V-12 Merlin, clawing and clattering into the sky on a go-around […]
Category Archives: flight
Heavy Metal
The full moon’s up in the wrong side of the sky as I finish packing for my flight this morning – the next leg of my first of two sleep-deprived […]
Sitting in with the Big Boys (and Girls)
The kid sitting next to me in ground school is a professional airshow pilot; Heather, next to him, flies for the Air National Guard. Mac, at the end of the […]
Eastbound to…Daytona Beach?!?
When I was small – okay, I still do it – we used to hold our breath going through tunnels on a family car trip. My father would call out […]
The Last Good Day of Summer
There’s a belief among the Stoics that the best way to appreciate anything is to put yourself in the mind that this may be the last time you’ll ever experience […]
Whew.
Okay, cutting to the chase: we won! Or, um, it won. “They”? I don’t know. It’s one of those dog show type things. But with airplanes. Let me back up […]
Jetsetting
Okay, it’s not that I’m trying to make people envious. It’s just that coincidences and improbabilities seem to pop up more in the Pabloverse than in most other places. Case […]
Island Time
A man could get used to this. Lauren and Stephen have a little 15 power telescope set up on the porch, overlooking Elger Bay, west of their perch on Camano […]
Seattle
I swear, it’s magic. Devon and I dragged Jeremy out of bed at eight this morning and piled him and a duffle of clothes into the back of the plane. […]
Yeeeehaaaaa!
The saying around my office is “Pics, or it didn’t happen”. Sadly, I was too busy having fun, and it was only as I was swinging the P-51 around on […]
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