During a cross-country road trip last month, I stopped in Sweetwater, Texas, where the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trained at Avenger Field during WWII. The surrounding landscape is dominated by forests of huge windmills stretching to the horizon, with farms and small towns dwarfed below. In places there were so many, it was a […]
Tag: aviation history
One Foot on the Ground by Paul Roxin
A gift from a fell fan of aviation in the upstate New York area, this collection of short stories has been a delight tot read. What Paul Roxin has done in collecting and recording a menagerie of aviation stories from around the upstate New York area is something I wish many more people would do […]
Happy Veterans Day, Grandpa
As pilots in America, we enjoy a freedom to fly that is unique in the world. I am very grateful to be so fortunate and I know every pilot feels the same way when he or she takes flight in our beautiful country. But freedoms like these and others are not free; our country’s brace […]