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Army did the same, all the E-1s to E-4s regardless of MOS. And we walked the runways too.

I always figured they had the lowest seniority controller(s) walk the runway before each shift and police any TOD they found...

Actually at 1000 pounds or so gross weight, differential heating caused by the earth's rotation causes an airplane to move on all three of its axis...

So, if the engine quits, and you don't have a sailplane rating, can you still log the time?

"Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer Came down upon his head Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer Made sure that he was dead Wo-wo-wo-woh Silver hammer...man" John was always much better with Paul...

Already built one. You know how sturdy those 'ole Volvo 240 wagons are. Well, I bought one with a scrunched front end and hacksawed the part in front of the firewall off (Linebacker Jack Reynolds was my childhood idol). Then I hand laid a "squarish" nose cone, calked all the doors and all the...

On January 12, 1950 the U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Atkinson, said in a speech to the National Press Club: "The defensive perimeter of the United States in Asia runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then to the Ryukyus.” That definition left South Korea outside of the U.S. defense perimeter...

It's okay...you can't just pull in...you have to float into that space by parachute...

Or a vice president, just use be sure to use birdshot...

You'd be amazed at what I've found on aircraft that just came from "maintenance," it would-- I mean it has-- filled a metal box. What gets used as a handhold, or what the back end of a flex bar gets bounced off of. It was always fun explaining the situation when you couldn't fly because a...

I don't really know, I admit that I point the airplane's nose skyward... But, I don't inhale.

So...it was a Windsor and not a Cleveland?

"Paper Skies," when the Soviet Navy lost 16 Admirals in the crash of a single Tu 104 (7 Feb 81) due to "loot" being loaded outside CG limits

Not according to four top dictionaries. Oxford, Collins, Webster, MacMillian... Or Lexico. Profanity, Vulgarity, and Obsenity are separate and not interconnected. Words have meaning otherwise we are all just (oops-- obcenity). In aviation having the words right could well mean the difference...

This is the sorta thing that really annoys me. I frequently use a site that changes the names of businesses. So if I try to give directions by saying that we are in the park behind the Stop-and-Go and Howard Johnsons, it comes out "convience store" and "motel" of which there are many.

So, if I argued the software should not filter out "President James Buchannan," I would be arguing in favor of him? Not arguing that he is irrelevant to aviation?

I'm not defending profanity. Just pointing out that it makes no sense to censor profanity-- and that is not what is happening at PoH-- because we are discussing airplanes and not religion here.

I'm not defending profanity. Just pointing out that it makes no sense to censor profanity-- and that is not what is happening at PoH-- because we are discussing airplanes and not religion here.

Yes, it is. I spent many years when I was younger living and working in Canada and around the Caribbean. I was always taxed by the country I resided in, and occasionally by a second country (IE: when we flew regular flights beteween Cuba and Mexico we were taxed by both countries.) I always...

Nope, and It isn't just OED... Collins: profane 1. ADJECTIVE Profane behavior shows disrespect for a religion or religious things. 2. ADJECTIVE Something that is profane is concerned with everyday life rather than religion and spiritual things. The cardinal said that churches should not be used...