On the morning of February 1st, 2003 I was flying with CW4 Wayne Keeton in a UH-60 Blackhawk from the Dallas AASF to the Austin AASF. It was our drill weekend and we were on a routine flight that was about to become anything but routine. When we landed in Austin, a leader came out…
I had the pleasure of flying across the North Atlantic with Margrit Waltz in mid-October 2011. I’d read about her on the internet and through various magazine articles and knew of her record of performance: 700+ Atlantic crossings, a long, prestigious, and continuing career as a Ferry Pilot, and her over 21,000 hours of flight…
A nice lady at my church recently pulled me aside to tell me that she and a few of her “mother friends” were considering coming out to the airport to take their young children on a “field trip”. She asked if I’d show them around so the kids could see something different. It ended up…
One of my favorite airports in the world is Dillingham Field (HDH) on the North Shore of Oahu. One of my favorite persons at Dillingham is Yuko Matsumoto. She is a very unlikely person in an unlikely place. As I considered where to receive Glider flight training, my options were many because Dillingham is a…
Only a few times in a lifetime do you meet someone at a special place and a special time that you truly admire, not for what they’ve done, but for who they are as a person, and that is based partly upon thier experiences. For me, the place is Dillingham Airfield, the time was May…