Glenn Martin, characterized by some biographers as a prim and proper son who doted on his mother, was also an aviation visionary who leapfrogged his early bomber successes into a growing line of warplanes for the Air Force, Navy, and foreign customers.
Opinion
Internalize the lesson
How do you best learn? Positive reinforcement? Admonishment for mistakes made? Writing and re-writing the lessons learned? And when you learn something, how do you internalize that lesson?
It’s a numbers game
The general public sees driving as relatively safe and flying as generally risky. But the numbers tell the real story.
Do they really want to hear from us?
The juxtaposition of the Piper AD story and the story that followed put a smile on my face.
The rule about rules
“You know,” he said, “many a pilot has been buried on a sunny day because they chose to fly when they shouldn’t have.”
Confidence and pride…get some
The discussion of pride and confidence is one I honestly believe we should be having more often. These are hard-earned gifts available to each of us. But they cannot be gifted. They can’t be passed down in a will or shared by virtue of strength or wealth. We have to discover them for ourselves. One attempt, one failure, turned to one success at a time.
Questions from the Cockpit: Freezing follies
I knew that, with heat, humidity “makes it worse.” A dry 95℉ in the Western deserts feels altogether different than a humid 95℉ in the South. But I didn’t make the mental connection that the same phenomenon might exist at the other end of the thermometer.
Answering the dinner bell for a good cause
EAA Chapter 1240’s pancake breakfasts and annual dinner are fun for pilots and other aviation enthusiasts, but the real point is to raise funds for a thriving youth program.
Human Factors: Planes, trains, and…
What lessons can we learn from a pilot who hits a train while taking off from a grass airstrip?