All Entries in the "Essays & Opinion" Category
Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something For USA
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one."
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
By Jack Cowan
Thomas Paine had it figured out, no doubt.
The present band of bandits doing their dirty work on the banks of the Potomac [...]
Why Do We Do The Crazy Things We Do?
By Wayman Dunlap
Editor/Publisher
The issue has always been; why do we do what we do?
I have been a pilot even longer than I've published this paper and have lost more than 100 close friends (my very best friend, in fact), acquaintances and business clients to airplane crashes - usually very high time, experienced former test pilots, [...]
Flights Of Fancy
By Paul Berge
John Locke had been airport manager long enough to know not to ask the city for a new windsock.
Budget cuts, they’d say. Patch the old one.
So he did. Over and over until he wondered if any of the original sock remained.
He stared up at the old rag snapping in the wind as though [...]
Sanford’s Lament, or, Where Will All The Fighter Pilots Go?
News item: The United States Navy is considering the use of at least two versions of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles to be stationed aboard their aircraft carriers to be used for combat air patrols, land strikes and reconnaissance.
By Sanford Hughes
Us old Navy pilots are wondering how this UCAV business will affect the honorable traditions of [...]
Lincoln Three
By Bill Savidge
Air flows up the 300 foot cliff at the edge of La Jolla’s Torrey Pines Glider Port, sucked inland by rising desert temperatures.
“Good day for flying,” Allan says to his wife sitting at the edge of the wide lawn, her faded blue eyes and gray hair under a straw hat.
“Wish you’d [...]
Not My Kid, Says Political Columnist
By Jack Cowan
Nope. Not now. Not a chance.
If someone had told me it would ever come to this, I would have laughed in his face. No more. I will do all I can to discourage my grandson, and other young men, to walk in my footsteps. What was is no more. The warrior culture has [...]
