Don’t you wish you started doing what you really wanted to do 30 years ago? I do…. often. Alas, no turning back. It only dawned to me recently that I was probably made to work with old aircraft, but at the time nobody knew……. *grin*. I was building kits of Spitfires and Halifaxes back in [...]
I’m sure you’ve seen it before: AOPA’s new initiative to get more people interested in (learning to) flying. I posted one of my Why Fly columns on there and it got published today. Unfortunately the link to Why Fly Inc. was taken out… must be seen as competition. Where it really is NOT, of [...]
Yup, I’m not done yet…… not by a long shot! So here’s Step Three: Flightsim Plaza’s SimNews !! I jokingly mentioned in another place that I was getting bored already, not doing the simFlight news pages anymore. That’s partially true. I certainly do NOT miss the constant pressure of having to provide ‘news’ each and [...]
Sadly, my days at simFlight (and simMarket) are numbered and I had to decide to quit an 8-year ‘career’ running one of the world’s top flight simulation news sites. The main reason being the fact that I just couldn’t afford it any longer. An already meager pay – and declining at that – with an [...]
Why Fly is gaining momentum, but we need LOTS more readers still…. so SPREAD THE WORD ! It is FREE ! This week we had ‘relaunch-week’ and we celebrated that with a wonderful series of 6 articles by Glenn Matthews. He tells his (flying) life story in it. Glenn was the ‘speaker’ at the Abbotsford [...]
I already was a publisher, of FSAddon of course, but am now also a partner in a new venture: Why Fly ! Sure, you’ve seen me post about it already, and there’s a link on this page to it, but something changed recently. Two of the initial founders wanted out, the business model of selling [...]
Bear with me now, this is testing the Smugmug video embedding code……. Now, can we see this thing full screen in HD!!?? We SHOULD ! YAY! That worked. Now, if I can get the thumbnail to show as well, that would be grand! Oh, and click on the little square thingy bottom right [...]
Do you remember the British comedy series Dad’s Army, with Captain Meanwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Corporal Jones, private Walker and all those other characters? The Home Guard group is re-enacted every year during the Goodwood Revival at the Goodwood Estate and Race track near Chichester on the south coast of England. Last September I shot some [...]
When someone is trying to push you out of business, and out of your income, there are two things you can do. Fight them with all means, or just go around them and do something else…. preferably better. Looks like I’m heading the second route. Fortunately we can still count on a huge group of [...]
The ‘rest’ of the bunch of dark-ish photos is HERE on FACEBOOK. )if that works for you). These were taken with my old Minolta Dimage 7, under bad atmospheric circumstances (British rain), rather late in the afternoon. But impressive nonetheless and I wanted to share them anyway.
Heck YESSSSS I am proud! My friends at WhyFly, the brand new aviation web magazine from Canada, have read my first story and deemed it fit to join those already there. That means I am in the company of some VERY talented and esteemed writers and photographers AND aviation lovers. I couldn’t wish for a [...]
Yeah, you won’t see me angry quickly. I may be grumpy sometimes, but most of that is more out of fun than anything else. But these buggers have really done it now. I’ve been paying for a ‘Premium Site’ since 2002, that’s EIGHT YEARS. I figured I could make a few bucks of some of [...]
I simply MUST tell you about the new website (webzine!) of my on-line friends Glenn Norman, Michelle Goodeve, Hal Bryan and Mike Singer. I have been privvy to some of the preparations and to what drives these people. Needless to say, we have lots in common. And I think that goes for most [...]
Yessir, she’s for real, NOT just a ‘thang’ in pictures or ‘promise’ on Flight Simulator X. How do I know? I CLIMBED IN a few weeks ago…… that was just soooooooo coooooool! (If you’re an aviation freak, that is…. ). Nina and I headed out with our friend Didier, in the borrowed (ex-Didier) Cessna Cardinal [...]
Since not many people read here, I can safely list some of the projects I am currently working on….. And yes, as usual for me, not enough hours in a day! Oh, that picture on the left? Check out the list below….. I have a few irons in the fire so to speak. The top [...]
Darn! Been too busy once again! Here’s a quick update of what we did: we got on the bike, and onto the ferry to England. We visited our friends Didier and Liz in London and had a most wonderful 4 days visiting the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, meeting up with BMW friends at Duxford’s [...]
Today, when clicking through last night’s Facebook entries, I found a video clip of a float plane landing on Lake Union, Seattle. ‘Hang on’, I thought, ‘gotta see this. That’s what we did two years ago, courtesy of our good friends Barry and Della’. So I start the clip and am looking over the [...]
Here’s an interesting little movie by a fellow pilot landing at my ‘home’ airfield, Altiport de Méribel (LFKX). He first flies over the runway to announce his arrival, then heads east towards Corchevel, turning north, west and then south again on final. You’ll notice how difficult the short runway is to spot. Actually the fairway [...]
One of the curses of modern-day Internet and computers is that there is TOO much information and too many places to uphold it seems. Or maybe the problem is simply that I am such a nosy guy and like to try everything and anything. *grin*. Whatever the issue, fact is that I have been spending [...]
…. from US Homeland Security paranoia, no less! Mr. Hendrickson, a US citizen and son of Ret. USN Captain C.F. Hendrickson acquired one of the last flying Douglas AD-4N Skyraiders (in France, no less) and brought it home with the intention to keep the history of this aircraft alive and flying! Through increasing paranoia [...]
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