I gave a little talk at the Lorimer Series last night. I’ve been studying to get my pilots license the last few months and I talked a little bit about how the systems that they’ve put in place that keeps air travel so amazingly safe. The start was a little rough — I […]
We were up in Ithaca yesterday, in an airplane electronics shop getting some work done on the radios for one of the planes. I’m blinking at this on the wall:
It was a fun place. The place itself is pretty lively, surprisingly more so to me than the Binghamton airport. The guy was […]
There were some cool looking planes at the airport yesterday. There were a few bombers from World War II in for an airshow. They were giving tours and, for $400 you could take a ride up in one.
Or, if you prefer something with a little more motion:
(I didn’t notice them at the time, […]
Went to the Greene Airport today (4N7), which is a grass strip in a valley next to a corn field. The door latch on the Cessna was broken — jammed so that the passenger in the right seat needed to climb over the left seat to get out. The left seat, by […]
There’s a lot of story swapping between pilots. It’s officially known as “hanger talk”, and it seems that if you are not actually sitting in a plane you’re going to be swapping stories. I mostly listen of course. Hanger talk seems like a scheduled activity — I was swapping email with someone […]
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