Special Libraries Day
The flight down to Dulles on the Socata TBM 700 was smooth as glass and surprisingly quiet for such a fast airplane. A short shuttle ride got us to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an enormous facility which provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot […]
NASA 50th
There are more than a billion Internet users in the world and tens of billions of web pages. Things were quite different in 1994 when I first showed the world wide web to the senior management team of IBM. Most of the web sites at that time were government or education related and my favorite […]
Rhinebeck Aerodrome
Aviation has been a hobby for me since I first learned to fly in a Cessna 150 in 1970. Later earning a commercial ticket and an instrument rating made flying not only fun but practical. After moving away from the Philadelphia area to Connecticut in 1981, flying became less practical for a number of reasons […]
China 2007 – Epilogue
Visiting China is an eye opener culturally and economically. It is a rapidly developing country and it appears that special interest groups do not get in the way of progress. Perhaps it was the same way when America was building the Hoover Dam or the Interstate Highway system. I was quite impressed with aviation in […]
Oslo via Stockholm
The best way to Oslo is a direct flight from Newark on one of Continental’s new Boeing 767‘s but on this particular trip it was not available. The Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Airbus 330 followed the instrument landing system approach into Stockholm early Tuesday morning with just 500 feet visibility and only a three-hundred foot ceiling. […]
