Hugh Cook

I really enjoyed this. Thanks.

The Champ>Cub because it doesn’t try to embarrass you on every landing.

The Norden bomb site was the ultimate analog computer but daylight precision bombing was a fools errand.

Same. Exactly same.

Oops. Bummer.

Top Gun Maverick? If yes, there’s a great story there.

Thinking Out Loud: On Leaving the Real World Behind This is aviation-based word-smithing. However, whether you’re into airplanes or not read it anyway. You’ll probably identify.

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See you at the show!

3 1/2 weeks out from the second ankle replacement on the same leg. Going to Oshkosh? Hell yes.

Go with the flow, grasshopper.

We’re doing dog tv this morning

Discovery is not just a Shuttle at Dulles.

The logic in this defense is making me dizzy.

Those Hartzell latches don’t unlatch themselves. Crew chief’s got some ‘splainin to do.

Sergei Passad.

via @accountablegop.bsky.social

Q: Why is the FBI not releasing the Epstein list?

(Now FBI Director) Kash Patel: "Because of who's on that list."

Exactly. Add a little autonomy into it, some Link-16 sensor fusion, and the pilot could orbit drinking coffee watching the show until he RTBs for another load out.

Cruelty is the aim. And it will eventually consume them.

Ahh, right. Let’s privatize emergency response. Got it. Payday loans writ large. The possibilities are endless.

This war on FEMA is the definition of senseless.

Were I on the bridge of that scow, I’m not sure my devotion to duty would overpower my instincts for self preservation. Knowing that the fire was feet away from the magazine, I don’t know how they didn’t all get Medals of Honor. Just amazing courage under fire, literally.

70M is one fifth of Americans. 20%. One in five. Which actually corresponds to my personal lived observation and perception. It’s not a massive faction. The apathetic non-voter is far more concerning.

Buoy tender, of sorts. What’s the opposite of “aid to navigation”?

What a great story. Naturally a Chief on the con. Thanks.

Cheyenne on the sign.

“What did you do in the war, daddy?”

I attended a talk by the good Doctor in the early seventies at Oshkosh. But that’s going to be bear to rotate.

I know this beautiful area well, and can not believe these numbers.

I’ve been there. Nice place they got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

My old rust bucket! Semper Paratus. Nice flag.