Things I think I think
I’ve been known to ramble on (and ramble on and ramble on) about flight training topics, and blog-writing can, in some hands, become a pompous self-indulgence. I’ll try to ramble as little as possible...
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Lex Lefon
I lost a friend last year. We’re pilots. Sometimes we lose friends. John King once said, “As a pilot, you get to know a lot of dead people.” As we all know, that is too true. This friend was...
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Oshkosh Redux
Your first trip to Oshkosh, the world’s greatest aviation celebration, is an eye opener, a jaw dropper. My first was in 2005 as a grunt for King Schools – whilst I was stuck in the booth most of the...
View Article“Who Did You Have Lunch With?”
If you could have lunch with anyone in aviation history, living or dead, who would you choose? The Wright Brothers, of course, would be high on anyone’s list. Charles Lindbergh? Without a doubt. Amelia...
View ArticleMy Wife’s First Solo
You never know how you’ll react when a loved one solos an airplane. When you’re an instructor, the event becomes even more complicated intellectually and emotionally. Here’s a story for you. For a...
View ArticleStephen Aloysius Daly
Stephen Aloysius (O’)Daly This being February, it draws to mind me late, sainted Oirish Fadder, Stephen Aloysius Daly, whose 95th birthday we celebrate at the end of this month. I don’t often reminisce...
View ArticleHow I Became a Flight Instructor – Part I
This rather long, two-part journey begins with how I first met Martha and John King. I was at a restaurant, Thee Bungalow, for a party of some sort back in 1995. I ran into Ron James at the party. Ron...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened …
… at the airport the other day. A friend and colleague actually witnessed a very good landing of mine. It almost never happens that your good landings have a witness – and it almost always happens that...
View ArticleLogbook Highlights
Herein you will find, eventually, a series of tales about people with whom I’ve flown: Logbook Highlights from 44 years and 11,500 hours of flying. The reason you’re reading just these few words is...
View ArticleLogbook Signatures, Part Deux
JC Boylls (11-17-97. 3-2-98, 9-28-98), Lowell Williams (June 4, 2000 and prior) Dante Rockatani (1/7/96), Tom Harnish (1/7/96), John Marshall (5-19-97), Dave Parish Whitaker (5-6-96), Kal Skadberg...
View ArticleStephen Aloysius O’Daly – me Sainted Oirish Fadder
Sure, my last name is O’Daly – or might have been had I’d been born in the south and west of Cork, where all the failed rebellions against the frkng brits began. “O’ ” means “Son of,” in Oirland....
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