Just in time for the seventh day of the new year—or whenever you get this—this edition contains inspiration and information, something to help you build momentum in the new year. The new year is also time to make decisions about
What does Pike’s Peak have to do with Thanksgiving, Flight Test Safety, and flooding? “Flooding,” you wonder aloud? Yes, flooding… We are drowning in data and facts, pixels and posts. It’s a flood of biblical proportions. The answer isn’t more
Many years ago, I took my wife to Colorado Springs to visit our son, an exchange student there, and we drove to the top of Pike’s Peak. On a clear day, you can see for more than fifty miles, and
I don’t really understand why we are making so many notes on envelopes, but the back of the napkin is the same as the front, unless it has a picture on it.
Seventy-eight years ago today, on October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and so today felt like the right time to break the silence that had fallen on this newsletter for the past five
Do you remember when your coaches or your parents told you to “focus on the fundamentals”? Where did that phrase come from? And is it true that Vince Lombardi said “brilliant at the basics” instead of referring to “the fundamentals”?
Sometimes I ponder the “days of yore” and the way scientists of the time corresponded in writing, together with the ad hoc postal system of the day. Today, we correspond by email in near real time. I say “near real
What does safety sound like? That’s the first question in the first edition of the Flight Test Safety Fact in the New Year, so Happy New Year and welcome back. You also get another reminder about the looming deadlines for
Photo credit: https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/lear-fan-2100 The first flight of the Lear Fan 2100 was officially recorded by British officials as December 32, 1980.
Sometimes it’s the sounds that remind us of some near-miss or safety lesson we’ve learned. Other times it’s a sensation, like a smell or the cold air, or both as the case may be in winter months. In both cases,