The Wood Shed

Back to 4.1
Ed: Be sure you catch the end of 4.1 – I went back and added a bit.
Cheryl put the jet into a steady climb. They had about an hour before they were due overhead the ship as the recovery tanker. Plenty of time to update the surface plot. Higher altitude gave them greater [...]

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Three labs in the backyard can be challenging in many ways. Getting out the gate alone, getting in the door alone, handing out treats while maintaining a ten digit count, and keeping your boots clean. Lately though things have become strange. Something is in the air. Literally.
Hormones, pheromones, something’s up. [...]

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Ed: It’s been a while. Much longer than intended. One of the benefits of going back through material that I wrote many months ago is I get to edit. Again. There was another piece that was supposed to appear here but it’s now on the floor. It didn’t add to [...]

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Study the image:

Now examine the description that the Navy published to go along with the image:
Air department Sailors weigh an E2-C Hawkeye before launch on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).
Naval Aviation buffs should be able to spot one factual error and a conceptual one. I’m [...]

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