On Getting Short
Getting short” is a familiar old military term: You’re coming to the end of your deployment or enlistment, and …
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Getting short” is a familiar old military term: You’re coming to the end of your deployment or enlistment, and …
Every so often, something will happen that reaches out and raps you in the noggin, and makes you realize how …
At the time this was being written, word was circulating within the aviation community that as the result of the …
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The green fields, most looking as if you could land a 747 on them, stretched off into the distance, where …
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For the last six months or so, every time we’d taxi out, my eyes would drift to one end …
Have you ever stood around the airport or at a fly-in, looked at some of your higher-mileage friends …
We were somewhere in the middle of the desert heading for my daughter’s when my cell phone rang …
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