On a Wing and a Whim

I have to admit, I like the look of steampunk - each piece that comes up on the net is often creative, thoughtful, meticulously done with at...

Drag wires are stripped, all the paint brushed out of the threads, nuts loosened and checked, repainted, and on the right wing. Aileron cont...

One of the time-honored ways to get as much house as you want - as opposed to the house you can afford - is to get a fixxer upper. Of course...

The day had started out grey and gloomy, but by lunch the clouds had broken overhead, and the banks of cloud hiding the mountains had been p...

Out in the Aleutian Mountains, where the waters of Polly Creek flow from Redoubt Volcano into a bay, joined by the glacial meltwater off the...

"Everybody knows" that planes are fabulously expensive things that you must have a heck of a salary to support, right? Except I...

If you've been flying, hiking, or climbing on and around Mount McKinley (Denali to the rest of us), or within the confines of the park, ...