Month: April 2020

April 21, 2020

1992 Helped an Eagle chase a Mirage

On April 15th 2020 my nephew Brian called me at the office. An old friend who had been with me when I flew Eagles at DPRO McDonnell Douglas in St Louis in the early 1990s had just watched the first takeoff of the very first F-15QA designed for Qatar make it’s first flight. At the bottom of the article it was mentioned these new Eagles […]

April 19, 2020

2018 Performance Driving

Performance Driving School (PDS) at Texas World Speedway (TWS), where a brute races my little Porsche Cayman In 2017 I got introduced into what I know now as High Performance Drivers Education (HPDE) by the Performance Driving School (PDS) at Texas World Speedway (TWS) here in Texas. I had no idea how much fun it would be or what great folks I’d meet. I gotta […]

April 18, 2020

1987 Berlin Airlift Memorial

1987 Berlin Airlift Memorial in Tempelhof As I was watching the US Air Force Academy Graduation for the class of 2020, it inspired me to tell a story from my days at USAFA. I’m going way back for this post, but it’s an experience I will never forget. It was the summer of 1987 and it was the summer before my senior year at the […]

April 10, 2020

The first post…

Well, I admit I’m really not into this. First, I’m a private person. Second, I don’t like how some folks seem to haunt the Internet looking for reasons to get angry and flame people who don’t agree with them. But my desire to keep in touch with old friends, family, and future friends as well, here goes. Please do me a favor, and if anything […]