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The wild world of flying, according to pilot and aviation writer Dan Pimentel. You'll find daily posts on general and business aviation, the airlines, and even a few surprises, always served with a dose of lighthearted good fun.

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When Life Gets in the Way of Blogging,You Call in the Reinforcements

Dec 11, 2009
Everyone reading this post knows the drill well. After you're born, you waddle through a few early years teething and crying, then blast through puberty. A few years go by when you crack a few books in between keggers before being thrust into the world...

Dig Out Your Foil Hat, the EAA SchedulersAre Reading Our Minds Again

Dec 6, 2009
At last year's EAA Airventure Oshkosh, the organizers managed two of the biggest "gets" in all of aviation. A "get" is television trade jargon for landing that one big interview nobody else could...get. By landing scheduled visits by an Airbus A380 and...

My Personal Collection of WX Links:Not Lockheed Martin, but Not Bad Either

Dec 6, 2009
Tonight at a great party of the Lane County chapter of the Oregon Pilot's Association, a good friend of mine who is a student pilot asked what weather sites I use to make intelligent go, no-go decisions. I explained that while Internet weather is...

Jetliner Dreams in a Mechanical Wonderland

Dec 2, 2009
(editor's note: This is part two of two. Part one is here.) In part one of my post on my recent factory tour of Boeing's Everett Assembly Building, I gushed over the completely awesome scene of looking down on actual 747s being fabricated right before...

Boeing Everett Factory Tour:Required Viewing for All Licensed Pilots

Nov 29, 2009
(Editor's note: This is part one of two parts.) I'm not going to mince words here...I've been in love (lust?) with Boeing jet airliners since the first time I watched a 707 depart Fresno Air Terminal (FAT) westbound over my house. It was the 707 that...




Garry C.
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  Av8rDan is a very professional, gifted and talented aviation writers. Within seconds of visiting his blog you can instantly see what I am talking about.
Posted 2/26/08 4:02 PM


Owen H.
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  You can tell that Dan puts a lot of thought into this blog. He always makes a potentially ho-hum topic into an interesting one by giving it a unique spin. I visit this site quite frequently!
Posted 3/29/08 4:03 PM