Sulako's Blog

See if you can spot the poor decision-making in this clip. Or this one.

This poor fellow gets ejected into the rotor blade of a helicopter. It ends better than you'd expect. Pilot Ejected Into Helicopters Bl...

On the road again today; here are some random notes. Today we went to the Smithsonian Museum of Air and Space in Washington. It's free,...

Early this morning, waaaay too early, we flew east for the day. I didn't bring my camera's data cable so I can't upload the coo...

I saw this funky little fighter plane on my recent travels. It has a single engine and according to the ramp guy, was made in Poland. It...

For my birthday, Lisa took us to see "Evil Dead : The Musical". We got tickets in the 'Splatter Zone'. It did not disap...

Okay, I'm back. The past month has been pretty crazy, but I have managed to recharge my blogging batteries a wee bit and I think I'...

I sit in the waiting room, hyper-alert, watching the clock tick a minute forward every hour or so. We had both done all the reading, about ...

Yeah, I'm still here. I flew a lot last week, and this week I'm on vacation so I'm not sure if I'll be posting much. Lisa ...

P-51 landing gone embarrassingly wrong. You can hear the prop strike quite clearly. The only thing worse than making a bad landing is makin...

Earlier this week we were south, heading north, when we heard this: "We have 71 souls on board, and 13,000 on the fuel. Smoke in the c...

Pretty damn cool Cat II ILS approach into London Heathrow. It's neat to hear the automated voice call out "five hundred" befo...

Flying home a couple of nights ago, we saw a particularly spectacular light show, courtesy of some major thunderstorms. Thanks to Kitsch fo...

Contrails are cool. I took this yesterday morning, while flying southward at 36,000'. That plane was 2,000' above us, but i...

It's Summer, and that means thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are the only weather-related thing in aviation that really makes me sweat...