Dauntless Air – Aerial Firefighters
It has been a fascinating few days working in Mineral Wells, Texas, with the incredible team at Dauntless Air, an aerial firefighting company. I was…
It has been a fascinating few days working in Mineral Wells, Texas, with the incredible team at Dauntless Air, an aerial firefighting company. I was…
My thanks to a helicopter pilot for this fascinating email and for permission to share it. And for adding the ‘ptarmigan altimeter’ to my collection!…
How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop The weather changes as we walk around a tree or turn…
My thanks to John Luke for this email and this fantastic photo of the Saltstraumen maelstrom. ——– Your rip current story brought memories flooding back…
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…
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…
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 snow is melting away, but not at the same speed everywhere. The warmer wind which is blowing from the southeast today is leaving green…