When I was a kid dreaming about flying, I assumed it was complete freedom. I read all the books Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote. I watched every movie with a plane or helicopter in it. Then, and I remember this very…
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Something feels off
Did you ever have the tower say “give me a landline when you land”? It’s a sinking feeling. One time in Burbank (Class C Airspace) we were doing traffic patterns with “full down” autorotations (it’s an autorotation you take all…
Chicken Wings Classic – Squawk 0173
Here’s another old strip that takes us back to the year 2005. Or 2004? I don’t know exactly. My memory becomes very hazy for everything that happened before breakfast, and I’m not sure if I can trust the dates the…
Tally ho!
While getting today’s strip ready to upload it here, I wondered where the term “roger” originally came from. So I asked Mr. Google and apparently it stems from the time where the military used a different spelling alphabet, where “Roger”…
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