I mentioned in my post yesterday that I’d made some decisions regarding this blog that I think will help me create better content. To boil those decisions down to the basics, I’m implementing an editorial calendar on the back end that will help me with creating posts and I’m instituting a couple of post themes. The editorial calendar won’t really change anything about the blog other than posts should start appearing at a regular time every day but Sunday. I’ll write them ahead of time and schedule them. That way everybody wins. As an extension of this, I’ve created themes for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and a weekend post (Saturday).
Post Themes
As of yesterday, Mondays on this blog are called Movie Mondays. The gist of the theme is that I’m going to post a movie or something movie-related on Mondays. This could be anything from some really great videos I’ve found to videos I’ve created to reviews or discussion of good aviation films. Tuesdays and Thursdays are themeless days that I’ll use for standard updates. They’ll probably wind up being a grab bag of posts that are widely topically wide-ranging, but that’s par for the course. I really couldn’t come up with any good themes that were alliterative for either of these days, so they don’t get a name. Wednesdays are now known as Warbird Wednesdays. I don’t know about you, but if I ever won the lottery I would run out and blow it all on a P-51 and fly it until the money ran out. To that end, I will use Wednesday to highlight some awesome warbird stuff. Mind you, I have a pretty vague definition of warbird, so it won’t all be WWII fighters. I love P-51s and Corsairs, but the Aeronca L-3 is a warbird in its own right. These entries will take whatever shape they need to based on the type of content. Some will be photo posts, some videos, and if I ever do win the lottery pages of gloating text. Fridays will rather uncreatively be called Flying Friday. The idea behind the theme is that I can catalog flights I’ve taken, flight lessons, or maybe just highlight a nice destination. My hope is that it will help me make a flight every week. At some point in the near future, these posts will have videos, photos, and maybe even GPS tracks, but for now photos and text will have to do. I’m still ironing out the technical aspects of a nice, portable kit to do all of the above and allow me to create something I’d actually let someone see. As for the weekend, or I should say Saturday, I plan to create a bit of a week-in-review post that details some of the aviation news from the week as well as offers a summation of the weeks posts. I don’t know what to call it, maybe the Wacky Weekend Write-up?
Update on the Franklins
Now, as I’m sure most of you have heard, Kyle and Amanda Franklin were involved in an incident at Air Fiesta in Brownsville, TX. If you’re interested in how the couple is progressing in their recovery, you can check out the Franklin’s Flying Circus Facebook page.
The Today Show did a segment on the pair:
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Here is a video from the air-show.
According to the latest update on 20th March, Amanda is “stabilized” in the Burn Intensive Care Unit. Her major injuries include a significant fire and smoke inhalation injury, burns to nearly 70% of her body (most of which are 3rd Degree burns), and numerous fractures to her face, neck, and back. The report indicates that she doesn’t appear to be paralyzed and that all indications are that she can see fine.
There are a couple of places to make donations to help the Franklins: the “Franklin Fund” or “The Kyle and Amanda Fund”