Category Archives: Just Words

Our tenth flight across the country brought us to the follow Fixed Base Operators, so I reviewed them for the Airnav web site. Eastward FBOs were already reviewed, and I also wrote reviews for our Spring Break 2009, and 2007 trips. Airnav really … Continue reading →

When we cross the country, in fact on most of our longer trips, I fly with some napping passengers. I’ll look in the back and Rudy will be reading a Piers Anthony book on his Kindle but Dexter’s head will … Continue reading →

The plane needs to be cleaned. Ellie spent over an hour scrubbing it. Adam spent some smarter time finding the reason oil was slipping out of the engine and onto the outside of the plane. Soon, Adam is going to … Continue reading →

August 6th and 7th, 2010 This summer little N971RD flew 6,800 nautical miles, helping us traverse the continent, bringing me up to visit Nell while she was on set in Toronto (watch Warehouse 13!), and showing us, again, parts of … Continue reading →

N3989L managed to bring home Kylee, a dog for Ellie’s birthday. Usually the dog is carsick and Adam was a little worried about the interior of the plane, but the flight went okay. Kylee is a rescue dog. On arrival … Continue reading →

Adam is back to contributing to the blog, at least by proxy. Just behind Adam’s plane (N3989L, with the snazzy red paint job) you can see the wingtip of the business jet. It’s a loop of some sort. I’ve never … Continue reading →

Our ninth flight across the country brought us to the follow Fixed Base Operators, so I reviewed them for the Airnav web site. I also wrote reviews for our Spring Break 2009, and 2007 trips. I wish that Airnav had … Continue reading →

I can’t believe it, but an entire year nearly slipped by before I wrote up one of our criss-crossings (two of our crossings!) of the country. Part of the problem is that I was posting photographs from the trip along … Continue reading →

How exciting! My first article for Plane & Pilot magazine is up on their website. It will be in the physical magazine on August 10th. Obviously, I already wrote here on the blog about the wonders of the iPad as … Continue reading →

This is technical, about the avionics in the airplane. Avionics are the electronic instruments in the plane, some of which sample air pressure in the pitot-static system, or sense the earth’s electromagnetic field. The very first airplanes only had a compass … Continue reading →