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Years since solo: 56 (47% of the history of flight since Kitty Hawk) Total Hours: 4,646.6 PIC: 4,415.1 X-C: 3,120.8 Complex PIC: 922.6 High Performance PIC: 850.4 Tailwheel PIC: 310.8 Instruction Given: 576.7 IMC: 113.7 Night: 278.5 Types Flown (by ICAO designator): 40 Aircraft Owned...

This one hurts. Not only was Randy Sparks, who died Sunday at the age of 90, an innovative and creative genius in the music business, he was a close friend. Randy was a prolific songwriter and up-and-coming folksinger in the late 1950s and early 1960s, performing in clubs and venues up and...

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/aircraft-crashes-into-hangar-at-airport-in-san-bernardino-county-3-reported-dead/ Article says it was a P35 (1962-63 model).

Looks like a TFR up over the airport now.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/alaska-airlines-sfo-flight/3254340/

Using DA62 and PC-12 aircraft ... https://kinectair.com https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220512006138/en/KinectAir-Launches-Commercial-Operations-in-Pacific-Northwest

Three and a half hours before the game, and two and a half hours before the TFR takes effect. There are five Super Cubs and two C-150s orbiting the stadium right now, all registered to aerial advertising companies.

"Department of Energy helicopters to test Glendale radiation ahead of Super Bowl LVII" https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-conduct-aerial-radiation-assessment-survey-over-glendale-jan-15-18 The Super Bowl is coming to Glendale AZ (15 miles west of downtown Phoenix) on February 12 (oh the...

Pilatus made news this week as the last PC-6 Turbo Porter left the factory in Stans, Switzerland, and was handed over to an Indonesian operator. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2022-12-13/pilatus-aircraft-delivers-last-pc-6-porter...

7ECA (115 hp). Not interested in acro, just a Saturday-morning runabout. I have 300 hours in a CubCrafters Sport Cub, so tailwheel is not an issue. The airplane I'm looking at is a known quantity; my mechanic has done the last two annuals on it and knows the airplane and the seller. What's...

Another shoe drops. It looks more like a jackboot about to stomp on us. "EPA Proposes to Declare Aviation Lead Emissions Public Health Danger" While levels of airborne lead in the United States have declined 99% since 1980, piston-engine aircraft are the largest remaining source of lead...

... or "Class B motorhome" or whatever they call them. Mission: Extended weekend trips for the two of us. Rare, if any, boondocking, no offroading. Our son and his family are full-timers in a 39-foot fifth-wheel, so we might meet up with them from time to time on their trips. We don't have...

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/15/2-dead-5-injured-after-plane-crashed-into-lake-powell-faa-says/

https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/jun/28/one-person-killed-in-plane-crash-at-pearson-in-vancouver/ Photo shows the burned wreckage inverted near the displaced threshhold of runway 26. METAR 15 minutes after the accident was reported: KVUO 281458Z AUTO 15007KT 1 3/4SM HZ FEW002 BKN041 16/10...

Send this to your conspiracy-theory friends and have fun. :) https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220608.html

Just across the Columbia River from Portland OR and KPDX, Pearson Field (KVUO) in Vancouver WA (my home field until just a few years ago) is one of the oldest operating airfields in the country. Over the years it has survived efforts to close it down or severely restrict operations, but now the...

Tuesday evening at Red's Bar & Grille at the Wigwam Hotel in Litchfield Park AZ: Mr. & Mrs. @kgruber, Mr. & Mrs. @Rgbeard; and yours truly flying solo while Mrs. P is out of town. Good times talking of King Airs, Learjets, Jaguars and Corvettes, not necessarily in that order. :D

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44446/russian-forces-have-captured-the-worlds-biggest-cargo-jet-in-ukraine

The Yak 110 is performing right now ... :D