…and on Feb 12 2010, 75 years later to the day, the US Gov’t declares the big dirigible’s wreck site a National Historic Monument. The Macon and her sister-ship Akron were unique amongst dirigibles – they had an embarked air wing of six Sparrowhawk biplane fighters. This is pure pulpish awesomeness – flying aircraft carriers! [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flying’
Foggy Holiday
One photo and a photo-panorama from December 24th, just because I haven’t posted anything in a while… The panorama was six photos originally, stitched in Hugin. The flat grey foggy background seemed to cause Hugin some issues – notice how obvious a few of the vertical join lines are in the centre of the image. [...]
The Spruce Goose!
Part of the qualifying/timebuilding for a Commercial PIlot’s License is a long cross-country trip, at least 300NM from your point of orgin. Most people make a flying expedition out of it, taking a couple of days and sometimes a friend – there’s no round-trip requirements, so two people can share a 300NM trip – one [...]
A Fine Flying Day
Up early this morning for the second flight of my Flight Instructor training – a very good flight, overall, with a bunch of stuff I hadn’t seen since the very early days of my Private Pilot training (six years and 300+ hrs ago…). It was clear, cold and very, very frosty this morning, though! This [...]
The Actual Licence
Got a priority-post envelope in the mail Friday last week; in it was a small piece of paper: Most expensive thing I’ve ever owned, and it’s a single sheet of paper about the size of your hand. Excellent. Come April I’ll be starting my Flight Instructor’s Rating, so by the end of July or so [...]
No Flight Test Yet
CYYJ 281600Z 24003KT 12SM SCT008 BKN012 BKN027 OVC060 03/02 A3043 RMK SC3SC4SC1SC1 SLP306 Eight AM local. Not good weather at all. No wind, but low cloud all over the place. CYYJ 281800Z 00000KT 10SM FEW006 BKN008 OVC012 03/03 A3038 RMK SF1SC6SC2 SLP287 Ten AM local. Even lower cloud, and the visibility is coming down. METAR [...]
