Truth be told, there have been plenty cooks in the kitchen preparing this meal, some with red hats, some with blue. The cause for height prices is demand outstripping supply. Our reliance on “just in time” logistics has blown up. Now everyone is ordering more than they need. If you are buying groceries and see your favorite pasta sauce only has two bottles on the shelf do you take only the one you need or grab both??? Go home and tune-in to MSNBC or Fox to reinforce who to blame. Last thing you will get from those “entertainers” is an understanding of cause and effect. Any comment on this platform that contains “Trump” or “Biden” should be purged. RIP

(Written on 04/22/2022)(Permalink)

Reference; comment about the downwind landing, there is only one direction to land at San Jose, over the mountain and down the valley west to east. I guess there is max wind limit, maybe one of the guys that sits up front and answer.

(Written on 04/08/2022)(Permalink)

Bobby thanks for mentioning Braniff. I moved to Dallas in ‘79. Tried to be driving on Wycliff @ Toll Way between 4&5 every afternoon. FA’s dressed in Paris fashions and Calder put some pretty wild graffiti on those planes. Man those were the days. Great thread with an occasional sore head, on if the best in awhile

(Written on 08/20/2021)(Permalink)

Anyone who flys the friendly sky’’s often can share SHappens stories. I have a couple tips when those situations arise. If trapped at Midway and the “sleep lounge” isn’t ole go to the end of either terminals, grab a wheel chair and make a nice semi- recline bunk. Go to the end of gates because that’s where the cleaning crews start, sound will fade. At ATL I suggest the lobby at the click tower, it allows you to time it takes the floor polishers to make their runs. No wheel chairs but the end tables make reasonable ottoman.

(Written on 07/16/2021)(Permalink)

A teen in the late 60' after a flying lesson it was great to sit and listen to older guy's "flying the picnic table" with stories. (There was a big green picnic table under a nice shade tree). One story I remember was a corporate pilot telling about a story about a converted A26. He said it was an exciting aircraft with huge power mated to small, high-efficient wings, really fast before corporate jets. His story was flying into icing conditions either without de-icing equipment of failed equipment. He said it was exciting (not the word he used) trying to keep flying while trying to find warmer air. He said after landing the only ice remaining was in the left seat. I would love to hear from anyone who actually flew a A26 to see if this was a demanding plane. He said a pilot really need to stay ahead of the plane. I been fortunate to have visited Harlingen many times and hung out with the Snowbirds wrenching those great War planes. I'm still pis__'d those planes were taken f

(Written on 11/06/2020)(Permalink)

Bingo Mr. Doyle. I flew out of a 1400’ grass strip, 700’ usable if you landed on 24. 1960’s we had a fly-in. Piper sent a guy in with a Cherokee 6 to fly dignitaries. High hrs pilot, but not carrier rated. He loaded up 5 big guys for a quick tour. Upon return it was runway 24 that required topping a commercial building at threshold, he landed mid field, dug trenches with wheels locked and put it through the fence at runway end. We pushed him out of the cornfield and he departed immediately. Lesson: when on final and you wonder if you are going to get this SOB on the ground....go around.

(Written on 08/30/2019)(Permalink)

Over Thanksgiving I was in the company of two senior flight attendants with one our major carriers. A conversation came up about flying with ex-military pilots. A passenger had made the statement to one the he didn’t like riding with a guy that “learned to fly F15’s”. We a were in agreement that military learns to fly real aircraft, not sims. Electronics are aids to flying not command systems. What is the consensus that the Indonesian pilots were depending on the system not their flying “skills”. The latest Black Box info shows the crew “fought” the anti-stall system rather than shutting it down. Just asking???

(Written on 11/27/2018)(Permalink)

Hoover flew Shrike (Aero Commander) loved to shut down an engine and do crazy things with it VERY close to the ground. Tex flew for Bell and Boeing. Probably most known for rolling the 707, actually the Dash 8.

(Written on 08/17/2018)(Permalink)