Things just move way too fast. This is Abel Tazman Lehman, Adam's son. He's only two, but he already dwarfs a Kansan variant of the Beech D18. He is very into trucks, cars, tractors, airplanes, anything with a motor. He is sporting a shirt from a tiny, tiny town in Ontario and his trip to Canada...

Our plane is registered with a vanity tail number, N971RD. It means that Rudy and Dexter were nine and seven when we got the plane (and I have just the one wife). It seems astonishing, but Rudy is now seventeen and in the fall will enter his senior year of high school. So it is time to start...

This is Swayne Martin. If I had managed to get into aviation a little sooner, and if I have been born a little later, I like to think that I would be as focused, optimistic and communicative as him. I could be kidding myself. I follow blogs like pieces of pasta. Delicious, informative pieces of...

Adam is a better pilot than I am. He has had a deep love of aviation from when he was old enough to put together a model airplane, so he should be a better pilot than I am. And his current location at KFHR gives him a real reason to love it, since it makes being on an island a lot less isolated.

This is going up late, but I realized I hadn't put a link in here to the second Plane & Pilot article. Adam was critical to this one getting out there because I was in the middle of writing code for the dot-com I joined in April of 2011. So I eagerly accepted the assignment and was promptly buried...

While on these extended trips, we make constant use of the Internet’s community of fellow travelers. I hope to eventually write up our recent trip up the West coast to the Seattle area, but before I do I need to fix some of the damage the script kiddies did. And I needed to give back to the...

A few months ago my mother pointed out that the flying blog had gone down. It’s not that she’s the most loyal reader (although it works out that way), she kept it as her home page in her browser because of the randomly rotating images in the header. So she noticed immediately if it went down. Or at...

Roald Dahl knew how to write. And he had a little cabin on his property that was his writing space. He disappeared to it almost every day, which is one of the secrets to doing something well: do it all the time. Frequency is important to honing a skill. That’s why I try to get into the plane, and...

As a pilot, I train constantly. One of the things I loved about learning to fly was that as soon as I was signed off to solo I could go out in the plane and, as long as I focused, I would be a better pilot when I returned. Apparently all of the FAA examiners pause before giving out the certificate...

We woke up later than we had been which was nice. Rudy wasn’t there so Mom yelped for breakfast. She found about a place called Commonwealth, but before we went we checked out a boarding school called Cranbrook Academy. We went there to see the architecture because one of my dad’s friend’s dad...