So yesterday the Legman called me up with plans for a study break. Why not run down to Griffin and pick up the cub with him, then we’d fly it home? Sounded great to me.
Atlanta was marginally VFR, but as we neared Griffin it turned to crap. I called the AWOS there and found […]
The 2004 air show season started back up for me in March, and the first show was in Panama City, Florida, the show we lost Chris at. As we flew over the top of Tyndall Air Force Base, I tried to pick out where he might have died. It had been a year, and of […]
Back in September, I was doing my multi-engine commercial pilot training in Winter Haven, FL. The flight school paired me up with a particularly thorough examiner, and after a long oral, we walked out to find the florida weather pattern held true - the thunderstorms were rolling in rapidly.
“I think we can get the […]
I’m glad I didn’t let my grandad down.
Doyle Agan, a retired engine sheet metal inspector from Delta Air Lines, used to keep the shops at Delta rolling in laughter. Pranks ranged from compressed-air contraptions that sounded like a bomb exploding to a box with holes in the top and a fake furry creature that […]
Someone forgot to tell O.V. Gray to slow down. Or maybe he just didn’t listen. As his peers dialed back their activities and stopped leaving their homes, Gray soldiered on – even taking his children to the Social Security office to begin their benefits as each of them passed age 65.
Gray, the 101-year-old namesake […]