Airplanes are so much more than a collection of parts. They’re a collection of stories, each one worth the telling. We just need to start writing them down. Read more →
Category: Car and Driver
User Fees for All
User fees for general aviation have been proposed — and rejected — over and over again for nearly two decades. Today something new is in the works: the Federal government has decided to start with the highways instead. It makes me a bit nervous, and I can’t help but wonder whether GA will be able to make the case against those fees after the “freeway” moniker has been fully transformed into a sad anachronism. Read more →
500,000 Miles
Five hundred thousand miles might not be much of a feat in an airplane, but when that number shows up on the odometer in your car, it’s pretty special — especially when all the major components on your vehicle are original! Read more →
My New Car!
Yes! Finally, a new car! The buying experience was painful, but the end result was worth it. Read more →
Two Hundred Thousand
My trusty Mitsubishi Eclipse reaches 200,000 miles. But she won’t last forever, so I’m looking ahead to The Next Thing. Read more →
Jet Powered Volkswagon
Forget that sport pilot stuff. If I ever lose my medical, I’m building one of these: Even Bubb Rubb wouldn’t be able to handle this thing. According to the builder: This is a street-legal jet car. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that… Read more →
Making Money the Old Fashioned Way
I keep a stack of quarters in a small tray built into the center console of my car. I’ve been doing this for years. After all, you never know when you’ll have to fork out some change at a parking meter. I always keep the tray full, because if you let any gaps develop in the tray, the remaining quarters… Read more →
606 Takes
I’ve been car shopping lately. My ’93 Eclipse is pushing 200,000 miles and though I love the vehicle, people have been suggesting that it may not last forever. My search was hastened by a breakdown last month. The idle control motor failed during a battery change. The guy at Sears who replaced the battery swears it was a simple coincidence that the… Read more →
Go Sell Crazy Somewhere Else
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. I was on my way to work a few days ago – cruising down Alton Boulevard at about 45 mph – when a small geriatric Asian woman suddenly jumped out in front of my car.  Her left hand went up, palm out, making the universal symbol for “stop” as though she was a traffic cop managing a… Read more →
Back Off!
The demented senior citizens who live next to me have a license plate frame on their car which, with six simple words, conveys everything that’s wrong with the world today. It says: “BACK OFF! Our granddaughter’s a lawyer.” With all due respect to attorneys I admire, I’ve spent the last ten years wanting to take that frame off their car… Read more →