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Big Rocks & Long Props Teams Up with Nflightcam

January 23, 2012
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Patrick has been crazy about these videos called Big Rocks and Long Props for years.  Any time fellow pilots would come over, out would come the DVDs and they’d all gather around and oooo and awww over the amazing flights. Well, you can imagine Patrick’s excitement when the opportunity came along to join Greg Miller [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [Practicing Stalls]

January 13, 2012

As a part of my 30 by 30 list, I’ve decided to learn how to fly! More on the how and why in my Learning to Fly posts.   So, yes, I’m still taking lessons. I didn’t give up the first week, so that’s a good sign, right? I’ve been taking 2 or 3 lessons a week [...]

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30 by 30: Learning to Fly [The First Lesson]

January 8, 2012

You know, being married to a pilot, I’ve been asked on a regular basis, “So when are you going to learn to fly?” My answer was a firm, “No thanks. I like being a passenger.” But when I started making my list of 30 Things by 30, I just knew that learning to fly had [...]

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To get your blood pumping…

November 29, 2011

Take 2 minutes and watch the following promotional video for Patrick’s air show partner, Brian Correll.  Patrick will, most likely, not be flying air shows next season since he’ll be starting his Air National Guard training.  This video shows off their daring flying skills and the awesome cameras! I don’t always write a lot about [...]

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a few pictures (finally)

March 29, 2011
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So, on our 10 day epic plane trip across the country I took about…. oh… 10 pictures. And most of them were on my iPhone. I’m in some kind of picture taking slump, I guess. Jessica would be so ashamed. Anyway, I mentioned in my last post that while we were stuck in a snowstorm [...]

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Adventure Pilots:: They’re Off!

December 27, 2010

My husband, Patrick, along with his friends Aaron and Alex left yesterday morning on their trip around the Caribbean circle. The guys will be flying in a Cessna 180 appropriately dubbed “Charlie Banana” as you can see in the picture above. They stayed in Texas last night and crossed over into Mexico this morning.They will [...]

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Rosie the Riveter

December 15, 2010

Patrick made asked me sweetly to help him “buck a few rivets” on his airplane last night.I felt just like Rosie the Riveter.Except Rosie made it look exciting. It wasn’t. Patrick’s comment after taking this picture? “You look a lot tougher in this picture than you actually were.”What? Just because I asked for gloves because [...]

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Evening Flight

December 14, 2010

I didn’t want to go.It was 5 o’clock after a long day of passing on my wisdom to eight year olds. And Miles was whining, “No go fly!” in his irrational toddler manner.But Patrick gave me his sad eyes, and I couldn’t say no. And I was glad I didn’t. It was beautiful.

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Adventure Pilots

November 16, 2010

I’m not sure if I’ve made this clear, but my husband likes adventure. Just a little.A few months ago, Patrick and our friend Aaron Stahl began plotting a trip through South America by prop plane, and they’ve enlisted the photography talents of Patrick’s long time friend, Alex Kent. They are leaving the day after Christmas [...]

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On Making Lemonade

November 8, 2010

Because sometimes life hands you lemons, and what else can you do, right?Patrick was laid off last week at work.  It’s something we knew might happen. His company has let literally thousands of people go in the last year or two. I hate to say, it’s no big deal. But, we’re actually kind of excited.Patrick [...]

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