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Of Mountains, Wings, and Dreams

Above: Piper Clipper and I on Tieton airstrip at Rimrock Lake in the Washington Cascades. Below: Tieton airstrip and Rimrock Lake seen from above thirty years later. What rag-winged, tail-dragger pilot hasn’t dreamed of mountain flying and landing on remote grass airstrips. There’s a bit of bush pilot in most of us, and it didn’tContinue reading “Of Mountains, Wings, and Dreams”

Helens’ Ring

The flight from Seattle to Portland was described as “a quick up and down” with no drink or snack service, and they implied that there would be little to see or do between takeoff and landing. However, the rimed remnants of Mount St. Helens rising above the clouds was a rare sight like I hadContinue reading “Helens’ Ring”

Dawn of Departure

Rising with the Sunby Howard Eskildsen The middle of the night The Sun hugs the horizonSeems a strange time to arise As we leave the runway behindTo drive to the place And it seems hard to imagineWhere more than time flies That there was ever a timeFrom security to concourse When flight was but aContinue reading “Dawn of Departure”

Poo-932 How Do You Doo?

I could not help wondering how this plate came to be. Was it simply random letter assignment at the license plate factory, or is there a dark, possibly smelly, secret to it. Some preposterous theories began to grow deep inside my little brain but I quickly put them aside, thinking that they could be asContinue reading “Poo-932 How Do You Doo?”