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Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers. Ever jump out of an airplane while parachuting or skydiving?  Some of us jump for sport or a one-time, “bucket-list” thrill.  Military parachutists (those graduating from a military “jump school”) often claim they have voluntarily jumped out of “perfectly good airplanes”. The US Army’s jump school at Fort Moore (formally Fort […]

I love serendipity.  And it… “serendipity”, or chance, Providence, fate, fortune, Karma, whatever you want to call it…happens often to most of us during our lives (if we recognize it).  And it happened again to me today. This time, serendipity exposed itself as we flew home from the kitschy “UFO Capital of the World” on

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  All of us older than 29 or 30 years old remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on this day 23 years ago.  I was on active duty in the Marines and flying a Beechcraft KingAir simulator at McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas at the moment the first

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  Most of us fly.  Well, at least most of us fly for business or pleasure on commercial airliners.  But few of us have been inside an Air Traffic Control (ATC) airport control tower or in an enroute ATC facility controlling flight operations.  What happens in these facilities is not “controlled chaos”

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  While few of us send letters anymore, we may still hear complaints about the cost of first-class postage going up. In fact, some of you may be unaware that the price for a first-class stamp just over a week ago on July 14, 2024 went from 68 to 73 cents. “Five

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  We cannot and should not allow today’s major aviation history event to go by unnoticed.  With less computer power than a modern, mid-sized car, today in 1969, like all of you alive at the time were too, I was glued (as a 16-year-old) to big floor console color TV with no

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  Twenty years.  That’s a long time.  While a few of us may live longer, 20 years is a fourth or less of most of our lives.  And how far we’ve come in that time.  Twenty years is indeed a long time, but then again, it’s not that long.  The past 20

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers and happy Hump Day and May Day! Many of us remember when flying cars were predicted to be a future “certainty”.  Same with Dick Tracy’s wrist radios and futuristic video telephones where you could actually see the person to whom you were speaking. HAHAHAHAHA!  What were we thinking? Oh.  Wait a

Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers.  America was already at war with the Empire of Japan and it took four months to plan and execute the Pearl Harbor “revenge attack”, an audacious, risky, and uniquely American “suicide mission” requiring only volunteers (of which there were none lacking), all of whom wanted to—and believed, as most young people