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Flyin’ Brian Update

I posted about our Thanksgiving Day, and Damsel posted about the sacrifice our military families make on holidays. All good and well — but — imagine having an untimely event happen in your family on this holiday and having to make the best of a bad situation — well that’s exactly the scenario for Retired Geezer and family as they rushed to be with their son recovering from a helicopter crash. Seems like Brian is on the mend and will recover — A Thanksgiving, indeed.

Note to Brian: get well soon — and welcome to the club. “They” say there are two kinds of helicopter pilots: those who have crashed and those who are going to. You and I are both past that milestone now. I was lucky and walked away from my crash in 1979. Damsel and I hope you keep flyin’ Brian . . . I kept at it and I’m thankful that I did.

23 Nov 2006 by Aviation Culture Current Events

Prayers Needed

Retired Geezer and Mrs. G at Blog Idaho have a tragedy on their hands. Please offer your thoughts and prayers for their son and his passenger.

UPDATE: From Retired Geezer . . .

Mrs. G just got off the phone with Flyin’ Brian.
He sounded really old cause he is drugged up with pain meds.

He has a compound fracture of his leg, broken nose and multiple cuts.

He got choked up when he told us that if it wasn’t for the other people on the ground, searching for the woman, they both would have died because they crashed in the river. The other searchers pulled them out.

We’re going to drive to SLC tomorrow.

Brian comes under the heading of Praise but please continue to pray for Kevin Orr.

21 Nov 2006 by Aviation Current Events Law and Order

Aerial Simulated Explosion

As I watched the news today, I saw part of the dedication of the U.S. Air Force Memorial.The monument itself is a trio of sweeping towers that simulate the arcs of air vehicles in flight. Visit the link to get some perspective of the monument.

At the dedication, the Air Force Thunderbirds flew a “bomb burst” formation in tribute to the design of the monument.

Yesterday, we saw the Blue Angels fly a similar maneuver at MCAS Miramar:

14 Oct 2006 by Aviation Military Photography

Miramar Air Show

We took over 800 pictures today at the USMCAS Miramar Air Show. Damsel’s camera is still downloading as I type this. It will take some time to go through them all, so I’m going to throw one of them up real quick to get a post on for today. This is the Blue Angels at the top of one of their spectacular maneuvers.

So, what did you do today?

13 Oct 2006 by Aviation Military

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