N631S

Well, if anyone is still dropping by here, I have some news. After nearly 12 years and close to 1,400 hours in the air, N631S has moved on t...

As we move deeper into autumn, the atmosphere reaches into its bag of wintry tricks. The weather of last Friday provided an example of what ...

In a recent radio interview, a doctor described a procedure followed in many hospitals when a patient dies. The attending physician stands b...

Early this morning the bright sun was shining at Sikorsky Memorial Airport (KBDR) and warming the old aluminum bones of some visiting vetera...

Allow me a mea culpa in advance, for I am about to bend one of the "house rules" here and offer a review of what is really not an...

Since the unfortunate landing short of Asiana 214 at KSFO on July 6th, there has been much comment on the difficulty that some heavy iron d...

We (meaning N631S and I) had to deal with some weather on departure from Bridgeport (KBDR) this afternoon – which all went pretty well with ...

In my last post , I described a bit of a kerfuffle that resulted when the system misplaced my authorization to land at my home airfield, KVK...

Home Plate for N631S and myself in the DC area is Potomac Airfield (KVKX). It's one of the "Maryland 3" airports (along with C...

When N631S and I departed KVKX last Monday for the trip north to Connecticut, Bridgeport (KBDR) was reporting a 900 foot overcast that was f...

On last Thursday, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released the final report from its investigation into the causes and conseq...

Yesterday's trip from Connecticut down to the DC area was sufficiently entertaining to warrant a post here. Also, it gives me an opportu...

One of the most enjoyable parts of blog-keeping hereabouts is the curating of the sidebar. That stuff over there on the right, adjacent to t...

It has been my practice to confine book review posts to books that I would recommend to a friend as being enjoyable or instructive – or, pre...

The Alexandria National Cemetery is just a couple of blocks west of my home in Virginia. This morning it was, as it usually is, peaceful an...