Did you know that, of 3,900 B-29 Superfortress bombers built during WW-II, only one is still in flying condition? The B-29 has been called the weapon which won the war in the Pacific. It was the only bomber we had which could fly 3,700 to 4,500 miles carrying up to 20,000 pounds of bombs. Believe […]
Checking Your Laptop as Luggage
Do you travel on commercial airlines and carry your laptop computer? If you are like me, you worry about your computer when you do. eWeek has a nice little article about how to protect your computer when you check it: Checking Your Laptop as Luggage There are cases out there that purport to be both […]
Aerobatics Joy Ride
Boy oh boy, this makes me want to try aerobatics 🙂 What impresses me most is how the pilot keeps narrating in a normal tone of voice throughout the movie.
What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?
What happens when lightening strikes an airplane? According to Edward J Rupke, senior engineer at Lighting Technologies, Inc., not much. (Image courtesy of Edward J. Rupke and borrowed from Scientific American.com.) Although passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise if lightning strikes their plane, nothing serious should happen because of […]
eMusic: Music Without DRM
Are you sick and tired of being told that you cannot make legitimate copies of your own music? Did you buy a song for your iPod only to later discover that you could not play it on something else that you own? A “little” company, eMusic.com, has the answer: they sell good music for a […]
Mideast Conflict: The Bottom Line
[Ed: I did not write this but I wish I had. I do not know the original author.] Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel’s part, the following two sentences really say it all: If the Arabs […]
Petach — The Opening
The cease-fire in Lebanon begins as this entry is published. Poems for Peace Petach — The Opening I am sitting at the opening of Abraham’s tent wondering what the tent opens onto — inside are the children of Abraham his various wives soon they will leave each other some day their descendants will be hurling […]
Timeless Voices in Aviation
The EAA has collected video recordings of about 100 aviation pioneers at TimelessVoices.org. Two of my favorites are Daniel Rundstrom who talks about flying a DC-3 in Yemen and how he dealt with a load of passengers who decided to start an open fire to boil water for tea while in flight, and John Miller […]
Serenading Horses
Too funny! Visit the Serenading Horses. (Click on the horses to make them sing.) Thank you, Alyce, for finding them. [Added August 10] And thank you Högaffla Hage in Sweden for creating these beasts. (Hint: after you enjoy the horses, click that link and then click on “STARTA”.)
AirVenture 2006 by the Numbers
The EAA says that AirVenture 2006 was about 10% smaller than AirVenture 2005 but it was plenty big enough for me. I walked my legs off and came home with a smile permanently embedded in my face. Along with my plane, about 10,000 aircraft flew into Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport and the other airports in […]
Experience with OpenDNS
It has been almost three weeks since we began using OpenDNS and I am ready to Pronounce Judgement: Use OpenDNS. It works. We had only one small problem. My wife uses a virtual private network (VPN) to access her company’s intranet. The default OpenDNS settings are incompatible with the VPN’S need to provide DNS resolution […]
Oshkosh AirVenture 2006
Jack Hodgson and his friend Phil wrote, Oshkosh is like sex. I can never get all I want but sometimes I get all I can take… and you should shower afterwards. Oh, how true! I have wanted to attend the Oshkosh AirVenture air show all of my life and I finally made it last week. […]
Joie du Vol
The Today Show did a great segment on the joy of flying a small plane. Watch it here.
Firefox Usage Climbing
A little article on Slashdot points out that worldwide Firefox usage has reached 13%. Within the USA, 16% of us use Firefox. Germany leads the pack, with 39% of web surfers using Firefox.
Amazing Space Shuttle Video
I’m a space junkie so I was thrilled to read in Slashdot Jivecat writes: “All those extra cameras NASA has added to the Space Shuttle to watch for debris impacts have yielded what may be the coolest Shuttle launch footage ever. The forward-facing view from the right-hand SRB shows, at about the 2:58 mark, booster […]
What is OpenDNS and Why Should You Care?
OpenDNS opened it’s doors on Monday, which was a nice birthday present; thank you very much. Why should you care? DNS, or domain name service, is one of the key underpinnings of the internet to which little attention is paid. It is the service which turns domain names like “cheerfulcurmudgeon.com” and “cnn.com” into addresses of […]
Whooping Crane Chicks Return to the Midwest
The whooping crane has been in serious trouble for a long, long time. The situation is so dire that several groups of people, including the Whooping Crane Eastern Parntership, have taken to hand raising them and teaching them to migrate by leading them with ultralight aircraft. Yes… you read that right. These folks fly ultralight […]
Flying + Camping = Fun
I have loved flying ever since I was a boy. When I got my first paper route in sixth grade, one of the first things I bought with my own money was a subscription to Flying magazine. We bought a Coleman pop-up trailer in the summer of 2001. It has taken me five years of […]
Study – Learn – Live
I was reading “Married to the Craft” in the June 2006 issue of Popular Photography. Hanson Fong, the subject of the article, was quoted as saying, Over the years, a few really talented artists have been gifted with the rare ability to light and pose faces and bodies to make them most attractive. I knew […]
Information About Identity Theft
Are you worried about identity theft? Me, too. My friend, Chris Kramer, has put together a web site Identity Theft, Information to help you understand the scope of this crime and it includes useful information on topics like FACTA, the Fair and Accruate Credit Transaction Act, FACTA and the FTC, and things you can do […]
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