Usual Suspects
Fund Drive
The outpouring of support for the site simply stunned us all. I had a figure in mind and it was blown out of the water on day 2. Just amazing. Thanks to y’alls generosity we are good for another year, and even have a bit of a rainy-day fund for those pesky frivolous lawsuits. Individual […]
Remember the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Once upon a time, long, long ago in a country almost forgotten, wise leaders in that oil-using place decided that having some emergency supplies of usable oil was a good idea. Gee, what a good idea! Then, the new leader of that then-oil-independent country decided to turn them oil-import-dependent, so he killed permitting for a […]
Get woke, fly safer, right?
Hopefully none of our DWs and DWettes were flying Wednesday when virtually all continental air traffic was shut down or the first time since 9/11 by “serious FAA system failures”. In December 2021, the FAA, under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, changed the “Notice to Airman” (NOTAM) to “Notice to Air Missions” — preserving the same […]
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