Cemetery Tale: A near nuclear disaster over Albuquerque
A B-29 with a crew of 13 crashed into the Manzano Mountains about 3 minutes after taking off from Kirtland Air Force base, at 9:41pm on 11 April, 1950. The plane and crew had...
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Checkride Passed!
Dec. 11 Today was the long awaited, much anticipated checkride. The day began for me at midnight, literally. Unable to sleep, I awoke at 12:39 am and started off by filling out form 8710-1,...
My long cross-country solo is out of the way
Sunday was my scheduled long cros-country solo. I had wanted to go to Sedona (SEZ) but was convinced by my CFI that it was a bit too far to do in one day given the rapidly...
Lost my shirt today…1st solo
I suppose with the nice weather these days there are more of us making the big leap. I made mine this morning around 1400Z. The weather was amazingly calm for this time of year...
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