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Photos by Kevin Takumi, Skyfox camerman/reporter

My blog (and other sites still hosted with 1&1) just returned this afternoon from a three (THREE!) day outage. I awoke Monday morning to notice that my status-monitor widget was reporting ping tim

Day 2 was really our first day camping. We spent the night but really didn’t get to enjoy our surrounding until the next morning. The campground and it’s surroundings were beautiful. I

This pretty much stands on its own. An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both u

Listening to - Dierks Bentley - Soon as You Can and Boston Center 135.80

I've started working full time again. Like I've said, I don't mind, and god knows I need the money. On the plus side

I had a hard time making up my mind to add this post. I have tried to make this blog upbeat and positive so, I seriously considered just leaving this out. But, in life, the bad too often comes along

I had a hard time making up my mind to add this post. I have tried to make this blog upbeat and positive so, I seriously considered just leaving this out. But, in life, the bad too often comes along

Each spring, Geneva airport hosts the EBACE (European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition), one of the most important exhibition of its kind. It is the opportunity to see business jets, but

Blake is an old aviation "classic" film produced by the National Film Board of Canada:

Midway along my route to work, there is a small town with a couple stop signs, put there just to slow me down and make me consume extra fuel. At a corner where I make one of those stops I watched with

The oil crisis has been hitting AA especially hard. Just yesterday they announced a huge reduction in our flying for later this year as well as the accelerated retirement of numerous MD-80 aircraft a

After several maintenance-related delays I was able to complete a couple of shakedown flights and we departed Oakland under foggy skies early in the morning on the first of many legs of a trip to ferr