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Just an update the last of four lawsuits was resolved yesterday with a summary Judgement with Prejudice in my favor for both the LLC and myself as an individual. I had good lawyers and if you ever find yourself like I did I can give a referral. For five years I have carried the possibility of...

I was a 25 year Commercial/Instrument Rotorwing rated pilot, prior to getting PPL SEL at 47…knowing nothing about GA, so it’s a possibility…

My daughter was supposed to fly with him in an Extra at Sun in Fun a couple of years back and I did not know they were friends through work. Been a rough couple of days for her. Weather stopped the flight. She says he was a great guy…

Bermuda the only place I feel like I am burning dollars 24 hrs a day…In the last five years I have stopped four times on boat deliveries…wonderful place….clean as a pin, and a highly educated, very polite population…but wow can you send some bucks…years ago it never seemed so expensive. Diesel...

520 pounds of Moose meat and antlers strapped to the struts in a Super Cub….seems like a lot… https://alaskapublic.org/2023/09/28/ntsb-plane-in-crash-that-killed-peltolas-husband-was-heavily-laden-with-moose-meat-antlers/

I am upset I missed this….still trying to remember when fighting falcon pilots became viper pilots in the -16….maybe Viper/Benito can give me an answer…I assume it was after the lawn dart phase…

My parents were sort of like yours but they are now dead…I still miss them and they are responsible for my success with there discipline and conviction…I have two kids, rather adults that I will not treat the same as I had it…one is liberal and one conservative…we don’t talk politics but do...

I think Bobs key to life and I agree wholeheartedly is a good dog…after that it all falls into place or at least it does for me…

Pilot reported age 47…so senior field grade in a hot new aircraft…never a good combination in my opinion…I was once a field grade in a complex aircraft… https://www.npr.org/2023/09/21/1200981028/not-sure-where-the-airplane-is-pilot-told-911-dispatcher-after-f-35-ejection

Thank you for sharing. As a parent I cannot imagine and have no words, but you and your family will be in my prayers today. I hope you fiend peace. Bens smile tells me all I need to know about what a wonderful person he was.

it’s not hard to lose an aircraft…my unit found Scott O’Grady F-16c 4 years after the shoot down in Bosnia on my second rotation. An OH-58D saw something strange on a hillside just west of Banja Luka and went to investigate during a mission. One of the first digital pictures we were able to...

Potential Cornfield Bomber 2.0

Going storage lot rate 25-30 bucks…a day…they get grumpy put a lien on it…

Call John Calhoun at Fresh Aircraft in Phoenix…great guy and will give you a straight answer. He sold my aircraft for me recently and can’t say enough positive about the guy. They sell all the CAP aircraft. He also brokers 3-400 other sales a year…busy guy…find their websight and he has an email...

I see this thread and can only think of one thing early in my military career. A flight surgeon who hailed from Southern Mississippi got up to speak at a Battalion safety meeting and informed a 100% male Attack pilots that we had to quit “Freeballing”. None of us had ever heard the term before...

I am in Mexico for a few days and local tv reported the device used to creat the pink smoke acted like a pipe bomb…but once again no clue if it’s true..

Parrot heads worldwide will be in shock…saw Jimmy play solo in 1978 at the submarine docks in Key West during an SORC race weekend…several times through the years at concerts…sad day indeed.

Pilot was doing definitely trying to save things all the way to the ground…

This was a few days ago in the yard…my Corgi had it cornered…we call them Water Moccasins but the correct name is Western Cottonmouth…you can see why.

Rotorcraft Helicopter…is the only rating also Instrument Helicopter is defined