Archive for June 2011

There were a total of 4 postings over the month of June 2011. Each posting is presented below with a brief summary.

Into the Wild Blue Yonder

A brief meander through space ships, self-built planes, and flight lessons. More...

Kitplane Safety

Spurred by a morbid statistic involving the fatality rate of kit-built planes, I start on a quest to discover just how safe (or not) they are using statistical comparisons to manufactured aircraft. The results were surprising. More...

Washington Goes to Google

In response to the recent news regarding an Antitrust probe of Google, I consider the wisdom of this action. Primary focus is the argument that the ease of switching search engines undermines the concept of ‘search neutrality.’ More...

High As a Kite, Maybe a Little Higher

I give a short debriefing on the results of my first attempts at learning to fly. My arms are rather tired after all that flapping. More...