Just fun stories and discussions about military life, military flying, and civilian flying.
In October last year – 2024 – I was browsing through YouTube videos, looking for some documentation of the disaster wreaked by Hurricane Helene in Augusta and Asheville. I came across a video by Mark Hunicutt entitled “
Continue reading Paramotoring – Episode 1 – Awareness and Focus
This page is here to share with the world an IDEA I’ve had that could revolutionize wildreness SAR (Search and Rescue). The genesis of the idea came from a book I’m currently listening to, The Cold Vanish, by Jon Billman, and by a couple of streaming series I am also currently watching.
All of these are about searching for and hopefully rescuing people who go missing in wilderness areas, and right off the bat, it seems to me one of the biggest obstacles to conducting these search and rescue operations is the terrain. It is nearly always far away from civilzation, and extremely difficult to get to.
Continue reading One-Person Wilderness SAR Vehicle
The year was (about) 1990.
I was serving as Chief of the Computer Division at the Community College of the Air Force, and the staff there decided to have a chili contest. There were to be three categories — the best chili, the worst chili, and the hottest chili. Continue reading The HOTTEST CHILI Contest
This is a true story about formation flying in pilot training for the USAF. But first, some background. Continue reading Formation Flying and Target Fixation