Rip Current Recollections
My thanks to John Luke for this email and this fantastic photo of the Saltstraumen maelstrom. ——– Your rip current story brought memories flooding back…
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Tag: aviation
Over and Out
The expression, ‘Over and Out’, brings a smile to anyone with experience using radios. This expression is never used these days by those with any…
Tin Bird Trails
We may never know the exact method that the earliest explorers used to find their way, but there is a friendly finger of suspicion that…
Astronavigation and Devastation
My thanks to William Goble for bringing my attention to a extraordinary piece of navigation history. Although standard practice in aerial navigation at the time,…
The Big Thaw
The snow is melting away, but not at the same speed everywhere. The warmer wind which is blowing from the southeast today is leaving green…