Vacation my butt…

So… stopped by to help out youngest daughter while she has hip surgery, and lo and behold, I find out I’m helping build a deck on the back of the house… So we let the young folks dig… 🙂 And … Continue reading

A Flower for Leontien…

A little support and cheer to a fellow blogger from Four Leaf Clover Dairy who is fighting cancer. Link to Flowers for Leontien to join in. h/t Brigid … Continue reading

More Random Travel…

So, the road trip continues… Worked all day yesterday, then out to dinner last night, which turned into an “adventure” in eating… Went to my favorite Thai Restaurant in Waikiki last night (Keos) and ordered what I ‘thought’ was just pieces … Continue reading

Callsigns…

Another one from the mil-email chain…And a comment that pretty much ‘defines’ what the culture NEEDS to be in combat aviation…YOU ARE DAMNED RIGHT……and I want it to be “inappropriate”. The military is supposed to be tactically trained KILLERS, not some … Continue reading

A little humor…

A husband had just finished reading a new book entitled, “You Can Be THE Man of Your House.” Finding new courage that he never knew he had, he stormed into the kitchen and announced to his wife, “From now on, … Continue reading

Random stuff #399

A ‘Maxine’ worth reading… Minorities We need to show more sympathy for these people. They travel miles in the heat. They risk their lives crossing a border. They don’t get paid enough wages. They do jobs that others won’t do or are … Continue reading

I ‘think’ this classifies as an Oopsie…

The Battle of Palmdale  On the morning of 16 August 1956, Navy personnel at Point Mugu prepared an F6F-5K for its final mission. The aircraft had been painted overall high-visibility red. Red and yellow camera pods were mounted on the … Continue reading

HTV-2 Results are in…

Once again reality overcame modeling and simulations… Big surprise… NOT!!! Aerodynamic assumptions and extrapolations from known flight regimes proved inadequate when preparing for HTV-2 inaugural flight test. The data from second flight revealed that extrapolating from known flight regimes and relying … Continue reading

BAG day present to myself…

Yea… FINALLY…@#$&*# NICS…Anyhoo, here’s the new addition- MT6700, but with a twist… Let’s see if the experts can spot the two differences… 🙂 Left Profile  Screwed together 🙂  and no model number… Right Profile, and my guess is less than … Continue reading