“That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” Deut 11: 21 A couple of years ago I was privileged to be part of a delegation who converged at the Textron Customer […]
It’s AWKWARD: First Flying Lesson
[social_warfare] “Anything worth doing well is worth doing badly in the beginning” – Marshall Thurber “Even when it feels award…” – Nancy Cullen I do not like doing things badly. I want to do things well. The first time. I see others doing a thing well, with grace and ease, so I jump in and, well, […]
Awesome News! The Biplane Baby Has A Name!
“It matters what you call a thing.” ― Solmaz Sharif, Look A name is important, but naming an airplane is very important. Why? There are a number of reasons, the first of which is a name elevates. It says, this is significant enough to be given an identity. I know objects are just that, a […]
How Flying Is A Walk Of Faith
“Sometimes a pilot has to take a firm grip on emotions, forcing oneself to take a firm control of a nervous stomach or shaking hand.” Weather Flying, Robert N. Buck Aviation is a world seeped in perceptions of thrills and frightful emotions. In reality, it requires just the opposite. Being led by ones emotions […]
Exciting First Steps For Biplane Dream Underway!
Exciting First Steps! The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu It has begun! After: the initial transport from my hangar to the EAA workshop last July, collecting of plans, Oshkosh, coordinating work teams, the fall fly-in season and the […]
How To Resurrect An Airplane In Style
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes My roots in aviation came from my father. His sprouted in the 1960s. I do not know what or who influenced him. He had not flown in the military nor been involved in aviation prior to his decision […]
How To Stay Up To Date On EAA Airplane Building
“To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.” – Otto Lilienthal An airplane building project my father began in the 1960s has been re-begun. “The Biplane – A Dream And Hope Resurrected” post provides the background for the extraordinary turn of events that has resurrected a dream all but […]
The Biplane – A Dream And Hope Resurrected
Me, at seven years of age: “Daddy, how long will it take to build the biplane?“ Daddy: “I’m not sure, but you will probably be old enough to fly it by the time it is done”. Me: “How old to I have to be to fly?” Daddy: “At least 16 years old.” I asked the […]
Three Ways Quiet Pivotal Moments Can Burst Open New Adventures
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made. – Vera Farmiga I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life. – Gregory David Roberts I remember the […]