Airliner down…

Been listening to the ML17 shoot down all day on the radio, I can’t help but get chills thinking how ‘similar’ this is to the KAL007 shootdown… ‘Supposedly’ shooting at ‘something else’, but bag an airliner??? WTF??? And Geraldo had … Continue reading

Starting the slog home…

Ya just gotta love family… The biggest rattler gets a place of honor in the family room… This one is right at 6 feet… The ‘failures’ are banished to the spare bedroom… Guess where I got to sleep… sigh And … Continue reading

Halfway…

Running around the South like a chicken with my head chopped off… 14 days off turned into 9, but I still have commitments to family, so… Currently in Waco, slight changes have occurred to this plan, but in the main, … Continue reading

Pilots…

Pilots – go figure One fine hot summer afternoon there was a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a quiet country airfield. The Instructor was getting quite bothered with the student’s inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and … Continue reading

There ARE good folks out there…

Taking care of a vet that needed some help… Article HERE. Kudos to those gents at Lowes… h/t JP, Les, Frito Posted from my iPhone.   … Continue reading

For all the GIBs…

GIBs- Guys/Girls in the back of the bus… Pretty good video on what they thought of their first NATOPS/Stan Eval checkride in the military… I don’t think anyone ever thought they passed… 🙂 h/t Bogeydope … Continue reading

WWII Posters…

One of the ‘iconic’ posters really isn’t… And it wasn’t called Rosie the Riveter either…   It was an internal poster for Westinghouse… J Howard Miller is believed to have done the poster based on this photo of Geraldine Hoff. … Continue reading

Bird Brain???

This one will boggle your mind… I know some PEOPLE that couldn’t solve that one… 🙂 h/t JP … Continue reading

That’s weird…

Anybody else noticing a drop off in visits???  I’m seeing about a 400 visit drop in the last week or so… That’s about a quarter of my daily visitors… I’m wondering if I pissed people off that badly…

Snerk…

On a road trip… In lieu of real content, a couple of videos… Gotta ‘love’ blondes… And then there is this one from Ray Stevens… His wry humor hits pretty close to home (much like much of his stuff going … Continue reading