Signal 46

Today at work somehow the conversation turned to aircraft, and problems with them, I think as a result of some woman calling in about a helicopter flying at what she deemed to be too low an altitude for the area. Of course, being an agency that deals with what happens on terra firma, I had [...]

Jamie and I have returned from Pennsylvania safe and sound, as expected. We stopped in Washington, DC and visited the Arlington National Cemetary, as well as the Air Force Memorial, which was very important to me. At Arlington, the somber mood was interrupted only by a lightly falling rain as we walked through the hallowed [...]

Friends come, and friends go. Some come in with a bang and slip out with nary more than a whisper. Some appear quietly, as if they’d been there all along (and some were, to be truthful) and then go out in such a way that you wonder how you never noticed them before. But it [...]

Well, the USAF has let me down.   They announced the new tanker aircraft selected today, and they chose Northrop Grumman’s KC-45.   Not a bad choice – at least intially, until you see that the aircraft the tanker is based on is an Airbus A330.   You know – the product of EADS, a [...]

Open bitch session to whoever at Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) inputs the job announcements: AFPC you suck for moving all your open positions and job announcements to USAjobs.gov.   That is the worst fucking website ever when it comes to searching for jobs.   I abandoned the use of it years ago, and I [...]