by Matt | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Fun Flying, Lessons, Multimedia, Videos
Depending on the phase of flight, a stiff headwind can hurt or it can really help. In cruise, you’re hoping and praying that the wind doesn’t fight you too much. You get too much headwind and you might as well be flying backward (maybe you are). That same...
by Matt | Feb 6, 2012 | Blog, Fun Flying, Videos
I know this an advert for Breitling, you can’t really miss it, but the existence of some nice P-51 flying is more than enough to make this worth the 3 minutes it will take to watch it. Anyway, that’s really all I have today. Feel free to check out the...
by Matt | Jan 30, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Videos
When I was a kid, my grandmother used to take me to the airport to watch planes and to airshows. A consequence of this was that I got pretty good at identifying aircraft. This was before September 11th, 2001, so airports were much more accessible than they are today....
by Matt | Jan 23, 2012 | Blog, Videos
Did you ever have a model train set? I had a couple, but my brother and I always enjoyed trying to get the trains to fly off the tracks more than we enjoyed building. Still, I can appreciate the work that goes in to creating detailed dioramas. Sometimes people put in...
by Matt | Jan 16, 2012 | Aircraft, Blog, Videos
I know it’s been a while since I last posted since I took a bit of a winter break for the holidays. I did a lot of strategic thinking, which I will discuss in another post. For now, I want to share the first Movie Monday post of the new year. This video, which...
by Matt | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog, Fun Flying, Videos
If you live in the US, I hope you had a nice holiday last week, if not, I hope you had a nice week. We hosted the family for Thanksgiving, so I spent the week preparing for that. It was a nice get together, but I opted not to write last week in order to prepare....
