Opinion & Commentary
The last time we were together I began a series highlighting one of the aviation-themed audiobooks that I produced and…
KSMO will soon join the ever-lengthening list of excellent airports that were killed by obliviousness, lack of imagination and…
July 2015 -I’ve always found the aviation community to be an exceptionally friendly and helpful one. Aviators go out of…
July 2015 – I was born in New York City, just down the street from the Marine Air Terminal at…
Preparing for a coast-to-coast trip in the summer of 2015. June 2015- Eleven years ago, in the debut of Left…
Decades ago when I was flying as copilot in a Convair 240, I made notes for a future use that…
Widespread fog prompts a change of heart about personal minimums on departure. April 2015- I have never been a fan…
Fragments of what I was seeing and hearing and thinking in those early days when I flew as a copilot…
After a medical leave of their own, John Ruley and his wife Kate have resumed their volunteer work for medical…
February 2005 Where did I begin? Where did I get my start as an aviation-oriented, crazy-about-everything-having-to-do-with-flying kind of guy? Like…
February 2005 He’s not really my uncle and, matter of fact, we’re absolutely no blood relationship to each other at…
March 2005 Everybody has dreams in which they think they are dead or at least in another world. If not,…

