Leonardo da Vinci

Wilbur Wright

Lost in Cloud

Kudos to Martijn Moret for finding this one!

This is how it should have been done

Tweeting on a Jet Plane

And as one knee jerk reaction after another is raised in the US Senate, we appear to be heading towards recommendations that electronics are no longer allowed in the cockpit.  This could put an end to electronic charts and the return to 10,000 page paper manuals which take minutes to search instead of seconds

New York Approach: “Skyhawk Three One Seven Bravo Tango, you have a Boeing 737 at your six o’clock, overtaking you and a thousand feet above you.”
Me: “Looking for traffic.”
New York Approach: “Continental 213, you have Cessna traffic at your twelve o’clock, one thousand feet below you.” Continental 213: “Traffic in sight.”
Me: (as the 737 passes above me): “New York Approach, Seven Bravo Tango has traffic in sight.”
New York Approach: “Three One Seven Bravo Tango, thank you, maintain VFR separa – well, I guess that’s a technicality. You couldn’t catch him if you wanted to.”
Me: “I could … if I wanted to.”
Continental 213: “You’re gonna have to pedal faster than that.”

Jared Max Hendler
Bethesda, Md.

SUV vs Cherokee … All Survive

“I take them by surprise, and don’t usually tell them I’m going to do it – but David needs a little audience participation to pull it off”