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Well, it’s 11/11/11…and at 11 there’s an event honoring veterans that’s on my to-do list. There will be lots of hats and pins and patches attesting to the different services and various conflicts the veterans faced and survived. For my part, the moment is but one moment on one day in which the service of [...]

Here’s a tip of the wing to the Obama Administration. In the Administration’s initiation into the Presidential Circle of User-Fee Proposers the authors at least hit on an honest justification — We, the royal “We” of Americans, need the money. Thanks for not setting off on that old, discredited canard about general aviation not paying [...]

God bless them, those Chinese REALLY want to fly. Local farmer Shu Mansheng starts the engines of his self-designed and homemade flying device before a test flight in front of his house in Dashu village on the outskirts of Wuhan, Hubei province

Our thoughts this morning are with the victims of the September 11 attacks, their families and their loved ones. And our profound thanks go out to all who responded and served, on that day, and since.

Five years ago TODAY, Jeb, Dave and I recorded the very first episode of the UCAP Podcast. Go figure. The shownotes say Aug 24, which was the date the episode was posted on the net.

Probably a little outside of the mission of this blog, but cool nevertheless. I’m really getting into this kind of Maker stuff. I think this falls outside of Dave’s criteria for “flyable” though.

Yessiree, today’s the birthday of the first human acknowledged and credited for successfully operating a heavier-than-air machine from level ground… Mr. Wright, Orville, would be 140 today and as he was at his death on Jan. 30, 1948, be even more amazed by the progress of aviation in the post-World War II years…ultralights to light-sport [...]

Do people really think that if they post a comment to a blog, and give as their name: “Penis Enlargement Pill”, that they won’t get blocked as spam? Whisky-Tango-Foxtrot!

A little while back I posted a video of what I judged to be a very cool invocation at the start of a NASCAR race. I confess that, at the time I posted it, I was uncertain how real it was. But it was fun, so I showed it to you. This, on the other [...]

Not to make this an all-Fallows-all-the-time blog, but this short piece by James Fallows’ wife Deborah does a pretty good job of identifying and exposing one of the reasons we fly: the sense of adventure. It also highlights the fact we can see the world as no one else. Recommended… Jeb