Also, they probably switched frequencies to call emergency services. You don't necessarily do that over the tower frequency.

Not necessarily. You don't always takeoff as soon as you're cleared. Sometimes you're adjusting your heading indicator or gathering your bearings. Maybe you drop a pen.

Pemberton & Sons Aviation is working on an excellent Grumman Goose restoration. Same guys who built the world's only flying Boeing 40 from the data plate up. if you're ever in the Spokane area, check it out.

I gave their COO a tour of a B-17 one day a few years ago. Just showed up at the museum hangar on a weekday with a kid and a camera. Very cool guy, I still have his card and a vague sort of job offer. The kid in me (who went to space camp) occasionally screams at me for not using it.

THANK YOU. I have never met a single pilot who has said they enjoy crashing airplanes (although I've met a few that have made me wonder).

The Original Pink Box makes an amazing drill with both NiCad and Lithium Ion battery options. I've had the Li+ since Christmas and I *love* it. You can buy it at Sears.

I had that problem for ages, but then I found The Original Pink Box. If you buy their basic all-in-one tool packages, I've heard they're not super great, but all the individual items I've ever bought from them, I've loved.

The Original Pink Box. I am so about to spam this comment thread because I have been buying their stuff for years and I love it. (I'm an aircraft mechanic with a serious Snap-On fetish, so I don't play around when it comes to tools.)

I got proposed to in an airplane. He called his mom once we were back on the ground and said, "Well, I just went flying with [name redacted] and....I don't have a girlfriend anymore." She responded, "Well, I hope you gave her a parachute before you threw her out!" Funny.

Of course, he unceremoniously dumped me (with…

A friend of mine asked his future father-in-law for his permission to marry his daughter while doing *very* steep turns over a lake.

Shirley? You can't be serious.

Honda has partnered with FlightSafety International for all their flight and maintenance training.
http://www.hondajet.com/sales-and-supp…

Huh! I worked on a C-49 with air holes in the windows and we always joked with passengers that they were for guns. Y'know, in case we should be attacked on one of our sightseeing tours.

Guns on a DC-3?

Awww, Galveston Gal. I was standing in her propwash at the Alliance Airshow just days before she went down.

I use an eyeshadow that closely matches my brows and put it on with a short, stubby Sephora eyeshadow brush. I get the excess powder off on my hand and then just lightly sweep it over my brows. I think it's a more natural effect than pencil because the powder tends to cling to the brows instead of just coloring the…

Last month I was on a Southwest flight with a fair amount of turbulence on the descent. I don't mind turbulence in the least but I know it (especially at that level) makes a lot of people nervous.
But a few rows up was the most adorable toddler who started laughing HYSTERICALLY every time we hit a bump. Like,…

Hell, I'm a decent looking lady pilot/mechanic. So how do I get a corporate sponsor for my round-the-world, free-hundred-hours-of-flight-time extravaganza?

I can't count the number of times I've crewed a warbird at an airshow and been asked, "So are you married to one of the pilots?" This even with dirty engine oil up to my elbows and a wrench in my back pocket.

At the time, the word STOP was painted on the pavement, though it was pretty faded. I think there was a small sign as well. Now there's a much bigger sign and the paint has been touched up everywhere.

If you look at it on Google maps, and zoom waaaaay in and back out, it'll toggle between older and newer photos and you…