pilots

  • Dreams!

    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards.” — Leonardo Da Vinci — Remember what I always say, “everything tells a story… everything has bits of history.” This simple photo does not… Continue reading

    Dreams!
  • Sunrise with a Titanium Cub

    Titanium Cub enjoying the warmth of sunrise on her wings… 😎 Continue reading

    Sunrise with a Titanium Cub
  • Champaign Lady

    I recently had the opportunity to see the restoration of a Boeing B-17G. Champaign Aviation Museum, Grimes Municipal Airport (I74). Urbana, Ohio. August 20, 2022. Looking into the nose, you can see the Bombardier and Navigator positions. Beautiful nose art… Continue reading

    Champaign Lady
  • Approach

    “Real flight… is the spirit of an airplane lifting the spirit of its pilot into the high clean blue of the sky, where they join to share the freedom.”  Richard Bach, Air Facts magazine, September 1960. Continue reading

  • Invitation to Heaven

    “My soul is in the sky.”  William Shakespeare While waiting for passengers, the morning sky embraces our world… inviting her airmen into the beauty above. Continue reading

    Invitation to Heaven
  • Every Pilot Logbook Tells a Story

    “Aviators live by hours, not by days.” T. H. White, England Have My Bones, 1936. While a pilot’s professional experience is recorded in their logbook, a treasure is concealed within each page… a story unique to every pilot. If the… Continue reading

    Every Pilot Logbook Tells a Story
  • Beautiful Piper Cub

    On this beautiful chilly Sunday morning, the birds were enjoying the Fall day… This beautiful Piper Cub may be small, but she was kicking up dust with a little attitude! 😎 Continue reading

    Beautiful Piper Cub
  • Sunrise with a Praetor

    This beauty joined me for a sunrise… Hope we meet again, looking forward to knowing her 😏 Continue reading

    Sunrise with a Praetor
  • Strawberry Bitch

    This Consolidated B-24D Liberator served in the 512th Bomb Squadron, flying combat missions from North Africa in 1943-1944. Continue reading

    Strawberry Bitch
  • Foggy Airport Sunrise

    “There’s something magic about airports it’s like standing in a room with a thousand doors.” Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic Continue reading

    Foggy Airport Sunrise
  • Nieuports Looking Skyward

    After entering WW1, the young U.S. Army Air Service (USAAS) did not have fighter aircraft of their own. To fill this void they were assigned French built Nieuport 28 C.1.  Many young American aces, like Eddie Rickenbacker, scored their first… Continue reading

    Nieuports Looking Skyward
  • An Aviator’s Sunset

    “Aviation is a love story that can only be lived through the eyes of an Aviator” Captain K. Almazrooei Continue reading

    An Aviator’s Sunset