Tag: aviation
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God’s math
“Say again your type aircraft?” a slightly incredulous voice sounded in the pilot’s headset. “Cessna 206,” the pilot replied clearly. On the other end of the radio connection, the man taking down flight information prior to take-off simply shook his head, baffled at how 15 people could fit in a six-seat aircraft. The pilot, however, […]
Donna Douglass
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God’s finger
‘“Continue,” the co-pilot said, verbalizing the point beyond which they intended to continue the take-off from the steeply sloping strip that ended in tropical mountain jungle. A moment later, the aircraft pulled hard to the right as the engine on that side failed. Jamming both throttles forward, Tim let the nose drop the tiniest bit […]
Donna Douglass
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white on white
“I guess that’s pretty advanced stuff,” Slick concluded after debriefing me on all he had flown during the past week. He had balanced the trusty turbo Cessna 206 on an 18-foot-wide runway despite a sudden cross wind that shoved him sideways just before he touched down. High, narrowing canyons broke off into jagged mountain passes through […]
Donna Douglass
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finally and already
We’re finally on the road…we’re on the road already. Time seems to toy with us. It took forever to extricate ourselves from our house in South Carolina, yet it seems like just a few weeks ago that we moved in…
Donna Douglass
Cleverly Disguised 