Do you notice anything interesting in the aeronautical chart?
Monday Musings: Science in America
The perennial cry to “Save Earth” is odd. Planet Earth survives massive asteroid strikes — it’ll survive anything we throw at it. But Life on Earth will not.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist)
Earth Rise
Happy Earth Day
Sunday is Earth Day!
Courtesy: William Anders, NASA
The final decision on who took this historic photograph was decided finally this past January.
Happy Earth Day 2018!
Links
SWA 1380
Tammie Jo Shults lauded after Southwest Airlines 1380 emergency — Aviate Navigate Communicate
Another aviation hero has emerged folks. Her name is Tammie Jo Shults and is being lauded after a Boeing 737 suffered a catastrophic un-contained engine failure as the aircraft headed west over the south side of New York at about 32,200ft doing around 850kph. Her fighter pilot training skills are believed to have helped as she […]
via Tammie Jo Shults lauded after Southwest Airlines 1380 emergency — Aviate Navigate Communicate
Today in Transportation History – 1912: The First Woman to Fly Across the English Channel — Transportation History
Aviation pioneer Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. The Michigan-born pilot departed Dover, England, for Calais, France, in a monoplane that she had never flown before and with a compass she had just recently learned to use. Quimby, despite those challenges as well as thick fog that limited visibility […]
Monday Morning Inspiration #66
We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
–Aristotle
It’s Sun ‘n Fun Week!
Fresh on Fridays
Save Tangier, Please!
Re-post from last year.
Okay, by now I have been to Tangier multiple times.
I even got the coveted VA Ambassador Stamp last October. As it happens although our original plan was to fly to Ocracoke Island and First Flight airport, we had to change our plans due to my school schedule.
Instead, we ended up flying to Tangier again on an impromptu flight with the flight out group (FOG) on Sunday. Five aircraft with 14 people ended up at Tangier for lunch at Lorraine’s this holiday weekend. There was much camaraderie, hanger flying, and excellent flying, since the weather was perfect, and the airspace clear.
Tangier on the other hand is still doing none the better since obviously, whatever anyone says and does, it will disappear one day. We might be okay calling it fake news, ignore climate change and science, and live in a world of alternate facts.
But nature in the end always wins.
Just this past week, Shelly Island appeared.
This is what we saw when we were in Tangier back in October 2016.
Ultimately, we all pay for our mistakes.
Hopefully, we realize our mistakes, and do something about it, before it is too late!
Links:
The Twilight of Tangier
Belief’s won’t save Tangier
Trump tells Tangier Mayor not to worry about sea-level rise
Save Tangier Island
Trump’s call fuels fund raiser
Note: All photos courtesy of Gert.
VSS Unity First Powered Flight
VSS Unity flew beautifully, going supersonic for the first time under rocket power in Mojave, California on 5th April, 2018.
