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 Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up. It was ready to fall out of the sky.  Then realize that there is a German ME-109 fighter flying next to it. Now read the story below I think you'll be surprised.
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Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at

Big fan of Hank Caruso's artwork at http://aerocatures.com/ (where I swiped my buddy icon from).  Love the way the artist combines caricature with aviation.  Wish he would sell more prints and/or books of his past calender

WHY $15 A BAG IS JUST THE START
By ERIC TORBENSON
New York Post Editorial

May 25, 2008 -- Fifteen bucks to check a bag? Twenty more bucks for a
Second bag? An extra $10 for a window seat? A soggy sandwich for five
Bucks? Is there any possible reason the nation's airlines have started
Treating fliers like ATMs?

There is: The airlines are dying.

Forget profitability; if crude oil breaks $150

This true story is from a pilot who was in VMFA 314  at Chu Lai in '69...Just another day at the office!

      I was one of a half-dozen replacements who checked-in with MAG-13 on August 2.  We were not all assigned to VMFA-314 though.  There were two other combat squadrons in the Air Group: VMFA-115, the Able Eagles, and VMFA-323, the Death Rattlers.  All three squadrons flew the McDonnell

WWII Carrier Flight Operations..

 

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7166330178234459087

 

Wonder what flight pay was back then??? 

Point of interest...about 3 minutes 20 seconds into the clip, you will see

an F6F Hellcat, it's hydraulics shot away during a strafing run, pancake on the carrier deck and slew into the island. A deckhand was crushed between the aircraft and the

  

 Women in Corporate Aviation (WCA) celebrated its 15th anniversary last month at the Women in Aviation International (WAI) conference in San Diego. The two organizations share the same goal-to provide women with scholarships, mentors and the opportunity to network-but WCA grew out of a need to provide a voice to women whose needs weren't met by the various airline groups.

In its first year, the

Women in Aviation

By Jennifer Harrington

Aviation International News >> April 2008
Business Aviation

"California Dreamin' 2008"

 

The 19th annual Women in Aviation International (WAI) conference drew a record number of civilian and military attendees to San Diego last month, prompting WAI president Dr. Peggy Chabrian to call the event "one of the most exhilarating and successful conferences we've had."

Hi all!

My husband and I are headed to Maui this October. We're going for the "Mardi Gras of the Pacific", as they say in Hawaii. Other than that we're looking for fun additions to our list of things to see and do. I'd like to narrow suggestions down to "affordable exploring" options. (Mostly becuase we're both poor starving pilots who really shouldn't be going on a Hawaiian vacation in the first

On my airport we have a gentleman who recently aquired a yak 54. There has been much discussion about this aquisition, since apparently its the only one in the US and it used to be flown by Eric Beard. I had actually seen the very same aircraft flown by Eric years earlier as he did the airshow circut. Those of you familiar with that particular corner of aviation may remember "Russian

Today I landed at Klamath Falls airport this afternoon, checked into my hotel, and headed for Crater Lake. I've seen it a hundred times from the air, but this time I had the chance to take it in from up close. It was a hour drive north to the park entrance and then the rim drive around the lake is about 45 minutes. There are a few lodging options and a few resturants, but check their business