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September 11- Major Heather Penney

September 10, 2011 Sandy Parks Leave a comment
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Flying friend, BIll Weiler, forwarded the link to a C-Span interview with Major Heather Penney, a DC National Guard fighter pilot who responded to the events on 9-11. It is very well done and offers a minute by minute brief

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Deployment Drop

September 3, 2011 Katy Boshears Leave a comment
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2nd Lt. Katy Moffett wrote:  This was at Pope Air Force Base/Fort Bragg while I was on Operations Air Force through the Air Force Academy in Summer 2008. We were on site with a bunch of Air Battle Managers during

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Taking the Gooney bird across the Pacific

September 3, 2011 Sandy Parks Leave a comment
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  Sandy – Seeing the “Old Gooney Bird” under “Generations” on your aviation webpage reminds me that I flew one from Miami, Fla. across the Pacific to Vietnam.  The trip segment from the West Coast to Honolulu had us in

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Medical Emergencies during a flight

September 3, 2011 Sandy Parks Leave a comment
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Question: On a flight home from Baltimore last year, a woman sitting in a row behind me rang for a flight attendant. “My husband isn’t feeling well and is having trouble breathing,” she told the attendant. That set me to

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Emergency Locator Transmitters

September 3, 2011 Sandy Parks Leave a comment
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INTRODUCTION: On get-togethers with a friends, we commonly ask the age-old question “what did you do today?” Bill Weiler usually keeps us entertained by relating the trials and tribulations of tracking down ELTs that have gone off. While the ELTs

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Welcome to my blog!

January 24, 2011 Sandy Parks Leave a comment
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Thanks for stopping in to our blog where aviation can be shared and discussed. We’ve corralled friends and family to start with tales and knowledge from their experiences. If you have a story to add, or a question to ask,

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