Left Turn over Santa Cruz

Monterey off the right.
Headed out of PAO this afternoon because the weather was just too good to pass up. Piston engines are like Labrador retrievers . .they’re better when you run them. So I regularly take the bird up and run it hot-ish for a couple of hours. This theoretically heats up the oil and [...]

Pacific Ocean off right wing

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Heading southbound today during an engine run.

The Front office

Today on a ride to heat up the oil for a few hrs. . .The Front Office of my B36. Notice the Steely Dan on XM.

WX Balloon Photo

I love this guy Dave’s blog. He’s an airline Captain out of Phoenix and has all kinds of great stories and posts. Blog is called Flight Level 390. Here’s a terrific post showing a weather balloon in flight above the airliner. Awesome.

WW2 Fighter washed up under the surf

A wild story on CBS of erosion revealing a P38 Lockheed Lightning in Whales. Very cool image.