Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Owl Hoot Trail

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Joe Clark

Sometimes life can surprise you. Such is the case with my friendship with one T.H. Bear and his lovely wife, The Bear Lady. I have known The Bear and his wife for over 20 years now. They have both worked … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading, Writing | Tagged Clifford Brown, fertile imagination, Gold in the Red Desert, Louis L’Amour, Point Lookout Maryland, prisoner of war, Reb Brown, Southern Georgia, T.H. Bear, The Bear Lady, the gold rush, The Long Trail, The Owl Hoot Trail, the Pony Express, The Reconstruction Period, the War Between the States, The Withlacoochee Renegades, Wyoming | 6 Comments

The Culver Cadet

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Joe Clark

Every pilot should try to fly as many different types of airplanes as possible. One of the most unique airplanes I ever had the chance to fly was the Culver Cadet. Hubert, a friend of mine at the airport, owned … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, Personal | Tagged -14/TD2C, Al Mooney, Continental C-85, Dart Manufacturing Corporation, drones, elliptical wing, Knight K. Culver, PQ-8/TDC, The Culver Cadet, two-eat low-wing monoplane | 2 Comments

The Sunshine Skyway

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Joe Clark

Yesterday my wife, her parents, and I visited her sister in Bradenton. It was a nice afternoon – except for the Gator’s game – that was a pretty hard loss to the Seminoles. Afterward, we started home to my in-law’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, Life in General, Personal | Tagged “One a day, B-26 Marauder, Capricorn, Captain Al Ford, commercial airline flight, Cuba, Fort Brooke, in Tampa Bay”, instrument pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, MacDill Field, Seminoles, snook, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Tampa International Airport, Teddy Roosevelt, the birth of scheduled airline flying, the Gator’s game, the Rough Riders, the Spanish American War, the Summit Venture, The Sunshine Skyway, Tony Jannus, USCGC Blackthorne, WDAE 1250 a.m. radio, World War II | Leave a comment

Making the Ship Go Faster

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Joe Clark

As with any organization, pilots can have a rather active, funny, ingenious, and sometimes sophisticated sense of humor. Most times, however, we can just be juvenile, according to our wives. A tale told during my Navy days probably has an … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Flying | Tagged 1-wire, airplanes, breach of discipline, catshot, discipline, glideslope, immediate action procedures, LSOs (Landing Signal Officers), military service, Navy, Pilot Humor on a Dark and Stormy Night, pilots, radar intercept officer (RIO), rounddown, sense of humor, shipboard humor, single-engine operations, sophisticated sense of humor, spud locker, The Air Boss, the marshal stack, the proverbial dark and stormy night, the quickness of a naval aviator's mind, Tomcat, Zone 5 afterburner | 1 Comment

Thanksgiving 1983

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Joe Clark

As we wrap up this Thanksgiving, I cannot help but reflect back on Thanksgiving 1983. In 1983, I found myself stationed at NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and that Thanksgiving holiday was my first stationed overseas. There is nothing like an … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged airmen, call to service, civil service, duty stations, fellow citizens, friends, good holidays, hostile duty stations, Marines, military service, NAS Guantanamo Bay Cuba, sailors, soldiers, standing watch, stationed overseas, Thanksgiving 1983, vet, young warriors | Leave a comment

Thanksgiving, 1621 to 2010

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Joe Clark

This holiday has certainly changed in modern times. Today, we look forward to turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, and our other favorite vegetables, along with pumpkin pie and more. Typically, we follow up with a good visit with family and … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General | Tagged 1621, family and friends, football, mashed potatoes, modern times, Native Americans, parades, pilgrims, Plymouth Plantation, Plymouth settlers, President Abraham Lincoln, President George Washington, President Roosevelt, presidential pardon, pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 1621 to 2010, The Great Depression, the War Between the States, turkey and dressing | 2 Comments

The T-cart

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Joe Clark

Yesterday’s blog was about The Perfect Flying Machine. Today, it is about a very similar flying machine. The reason it is very similar is because the same aeronautical engineer, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, designed today’s airplane, the Taylorcraft. After the big … Continue reading →

Tagged airplanes, BC-12D, Brownsville TX, F-19, L–2 Grasshopper, spins, taildraggers, Taylorcraft, Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation, The T-cart, ton of fun, training aircraft, welded 4130 chromoly tubing | 1 Comment

The Perfect Flying Machine

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Joe Clark

Every time an airplane makes the news, someone makes a comment about the “Piper Cub.” Now the airplane might have been a Cessna 210, a Beechcraft A-36, maybe even a King Air, but for many in the public, if the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying | Tagged airplanes, Beechcraft A-36, Boeing 700 series airliner, Bradford PA, Cessna 210, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, Continental A-40 engine, Continental A-65 engine, flying, J-2 Cub, King Air, learning to fly, Piper J-3 Cub, student pilots, taildraggers, Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation, Taylor E-2 Cub, the “Piper Cub”, The Perfect Flying Machine, training aircraft, William T. Piper | Leave a comment

Captain Jeffrey Haney, USAF

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Joe Clark

Down here in the lower 48, all we knew was that an F-22 Raptor went down. For a long time, we knew little other than it was missing. For far too long this past week, all we knew was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General | Tagged Alaska, Captain Jeffrey Haney USAF, dedication to duty, F-22 Raptor, flight students, leading by example, missing aircraft, standing vigil | Leave a comment

What Makes a Really Good Pilot?

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Joe Clark

So, you want to be a good pilot. No, you want to be a great pilot. You want people to regard you as one of the best pilots with whom they have ever flown. Not too lofty a goal, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying | Tagged actual emergencies, airspeed control, checking weather, emergency procedures, engine failures, flying smoothly, fuel mismanagement, glide path control, great pilot, judgment, piloting skill, practice, risks, running out of gas, What Makes a Really Good Pilot?, young and inexperienced | Leave a comment

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