Chris flies a desk for a living but is an aeronautics enthusiast who delights in the Golden Age of Aviation. He admires all the pioneering men and women who travelled the world equipped with only a map, compass, sextant, and the conviction that there was no place they could not reach.
@bensharma Yes he did. Fortunately, our civilisational fate didn't rest in the hands of anxiety-ridden pop vocalists. 2010/03/10
Talking back to eye-rolling preachiness in '80s music: No, Sting, the Russians don't love their children too. I checked. #fb2010/03/10
NTSB finds glass cockpits in GA aircraft not safer than steam gauges. AOPA ASF has good suggestions for improvement http://bit.ly/8XBG4L#fb2010/03/10
Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940): Flying boat crash scene, terrific. Previous 2hrs to get to that mark: so-so. 2010/03/05
There's a species of giant, 'ornamental' onion called Globemaster. http://bit.ly/HcqeN As in C-74, C-124, C-17. Was it named after the acft? 2010/03/03