On The Step
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Fall... The best time of year to fly.
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The days are getting cooler and just a little shorter. The summer heat and haze has given way to clear blue days. This change usuall...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
A Real Cross Country Flight
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The Opportunity. My new company is based in San Francisco and I am based in Birmingham, Alabama, so I now get the opportunity to visit this...
Saturday, July 27, 2013
What is so cool about a J3 Cub
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These little airplanes have been around since the early days of flying. They are made of simple steel bicycle type framing tubes, wrapped i...
Monday, April 4, 2011
Your tax dollars at work.
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We have all joked about wasteful government spending. There is plenty. We all pay taxes and grimace when we give a huge percentage of our ha...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Technology at our fingertips
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My profession is computers, but my flying is really more of a religion to me. Generally I believe that simpler is better. The Piper Cub...
Monday, May 3, 2010
Protecting the seaplane from insects
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Dirt daubers and wasps are my biggest trouble makers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp Both of thes...
Protecting the seaplane from birds
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We have three kinds of critters that attack our plane. We will take them on one at a time. Birds like planes. They have lots of places to pe...
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