The land slopes down to the displaced threshold for 17, so again, he looks *really* low, but he's just not that far off.

The guy in the plane was a student on his first solo cross country. The video makes it look like he was way lower than he should have been, but he's pretty much right on it. That's just how the approach is. You may notice that even *after he hits the car* he still puts it in on the pavement.

The people in the car were…

Say, I learned to fly in Ardmore!

I work with a warbird group that sells a lot of rides, and my favorite riders are always the veterans. One day, we had a guy on our DC-3 who had flown a DC-3 (C-47 for you nitpickers) over Normandy on D-Day. When he told me, I squealed and ran to get one of our regular pilots who just…

See, I think it's one of the ugliest, Russian aircraft notwithstanding.

(That sentiment almost ended my last relationship. I kinda wish it had.)

I have it on very good (but unofficial) authority that Hawaiian Airlines will no longer hire FOs who don't already live in Hawaii. Reason being, the cost of living in Honolulu is so astronomical that FOs coming over from the mainland were living in homeless shelters to get by.

(Credentials: Airline mechanic with quite…