I love aircraft and I love to fly as the pilot. I am sadden by my most recent travel experience with commercial aviation just a few days ago. I must admit it is mostly my fault. I was looking and purchased the lowest cost, two person quick round trip. My wife and I participated in Saturday night to Monday morning round trip between Dallas, Texas and Cleveland, Ohio. Via American Airlines on a Boeing S80...
Continue reading...Observation
Privacy Opinion
This is an unimpassioned observation, not a rant… 🙂 We American people and certainly the folks in all foreign lands have totally surrendered our privacy to social sharing and government scrutiny. I am aware that everything I do today is being recorded into massive electronic databases for present known and future unknown exploitation. Every public and internet purchase I make using credit cards is stored and examined for information about my habits. This includes every tank of gas or...
Continue reading...Understanding GPS
Passive location, position, navigation and mapping. News and entertainment media as well as now common devices such as cell phones have obscured the true function of GPS (Global Positioning System). Its only function is to provide accurate position information to a receiver that can “hear” three or more orbiting satellites that transmit signals toward earth. Sometimes a transmitter at a known place on earth is combined with information from the satellites to increase accuracy. The...
Continue reading...September 18th
I looked out my window this morning and I noticed The turtle lineup on the far side of the lake. As you can see the water is very low and it exposed this concrete buttress where street storm sewers enter the lake. Perfect for turtle warming in the morning. So I grabbed my Sony and slapped on the tele lens. The ducks showed up a bit later just as the turtle party was breaking up....
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