Folks, before you turn on the BIG GAME and couch potato out as the Hawks take on the Patriots (which kicks off in my city, by the way,) a couple awesome things to chat about today. Our first Word on the Ramp of 2015—Special Super Bowl Edition!—is up in a minute. But first: As always, […]
WHAT’S THE MYSTERY? ALL will be revealed after today’s BEST OF post! Ladies and gentlemen, from the Flight Blog, Welcome Aboard Flight 2015! Per tradition, here’s our Top 10 Countdown of the Best Cap’n Aux posts from Flight 2014, voted on by YOUR clicks! Coming in at Number . . . 10. Janet, the Amazing Flying Fairey Gannet! […]
There I Wuz! Stranded, jobless, homeless, in a 3rd world country . . . (Continued from last week) Oh, you may think, stranded in paradise ain’t so bad. But all that cash I had squirreled away in Alaska had quickly evaporated in the muggy Virgin Islands air while waiting for my checkride, and awaiting my first meager […]
Dedicated to the memory of Virgin Islands Seaplane Shuttle Director of Operations, Captain John Stuart-Jervis. A former Royal Navy pilot, Captain Stuart-Jervis was tragically lost to us in 1995 while competing in Europe’s most prestigious balloon race, inexplicably shot down by the Belarus military. “Luck means taking chances. Rolling the dice.” Looking back on the long […]
Note: Folks, at the very moment this blog is posting, I am knee-deep in a radio interview and talk, back in the town and college where I first attended flight school. So, for today, I have turned the flight blog over to my good buddy, Michael Lothrop. Michael, you have the controls! —Cap’n Aux The Aviation Community: One […]
In 1944, the United Nations decreed that December 7 would be known as, International Civil Aviation Day. Visit http://www.icao.int/Pages/default.aspx for more info! Coincidentally, today is also “Pearl Harbor Day,” that Date which will live in infamy. Let us remember the fallen on that day that changed the world. Here are a few links for you: http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/07/21-photos-pearl-harbor-day-will-live-infamy/ […]