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Whenthe United States was celebrating its 200th anniversary back in 1976, theChairperson of the Ninety-Nines asked Fay Gillis Wells, one of the originalorganizing founders of the Ninety-Nines,to come up with an idea to participate in the celebration. Fay’s answer was theInternational Forest of Friendship. Fay, who has outstanding skills at gettingpeople to do things, somehow […]

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For each compartment to be used by the crew or passengers: (a) The materials must be at least flame-resistant; (b) [Reserved] (c) If smoking is to be prohibited, there must be a placard sostating, and if smoking is to be allowed- (d) In addition, for commuter category airplanes the followingrequirements apply: (Section d snipped – […]

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Click on each picture for a larger image. Squidboy   the DV’s prowl the flight deck   grabbing the three   the COD taxies to the cat…   …DV’s hearts start pounding…   …and shins start aching   walking the Tomcat   whoa big fella!   are we having fun yet?   the angle of […]

Click on any image for a larger version. Recently I did two of the coolest thingsI’ve ever done in an airplane. I didn’t get to see either one of them and together theytook less than five seconds. What could possibly be this exciting? One day I arrived on the deck of the USS John C.Stennis […]

I Made It to Sixty! Well friends, the idiotic “Age Sixty” rule finally hit home in a verypersonal way a couple of weeks ago, when the calendar rolled around to my own 60th. I knewit was coming, and I’m really delighted to have survived to this point, but I guess I wasable to somehow make […]

Fishing With Finesse Using Aviation Objects A Russian serviceman detained at a southern Russian train station gives new meaning to the phrase “fishing with finesse.” Transport police in Krasnodar conducting an anti-terrorism operation must have thought they stumbled onto the mother lode when the 20-year-old soldier unzipped his baggage. Inside were five powerful explosive charges, […]

“Afirst solo is like the birth of a baby.” The usual suspects were sitting in the Lounge discussing the fact that we areseeing more students at the airport when old Hack dropped that line on us. Itdid stop conversation for a moment. We generally enjoy the process ofchallenging oddball analogies, so we wanted to toss […]

Paul Howard Poberezny was born on September14, 1921, in Leavenworth County, Kan. The family soon relocated to the south side ofMilwaukee in a house under an airmail route. Paul grew up watching a stream of biplanesflying low and slow in all kinds of weather. As he got older, he could tell from thesounds overhead that […]