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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 […]

Marion Cole was born in 1924 near Peoria,Ill. He was one of nine brothers and a sister. Dad didn’t fly, but most of the brothersgot avgas in their blood early. Marion wasted no time getting his private, commercial andinstructor’s ratings, then joined his older brothers in the airshow business. Promoterswanted their money’s worth, so Marion […]

Bob Norris was born on March 20, 1955 inGermany, where his father Bill (a test pilot for the Air Force), was stationed. He learnedhow to fly in the Navy and spent the next 19 years flying fighter jets. In January of 1996he went from one doctor to another trying to find out why he was […]

Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout was born onJanuary 7, 1906, in Greenup, Ill. She saw her first airplane at age 12 and knew right awaythat she wanted to fly. In 1920, the family moved to Los Angeles and everyone worked atthe family’s “filling station.” On December 27, 1922, one of her customersoffered her a ride in his […]