Faithful readers will already know that I’m a liberal. But just to make it clear, I am a liberal with a neon pink capital “L” that you can see from space. I am a civil-libertarian, an authority-suspecting, e-waste recycling, workers-rights-supporting, gun-controlling, universal healthnik, who thinks it’s the government’s job to regulate corporate polluters and hedge […]

A day at the air show can leave you breathless, but too sun-drenched to blog — so we’ll have to let the picture do its thousand words. More on the March AFB Airfest 2008 to come — once we catch our breath.

A-1 on today’s Press-Telegram: Val’s buds at Air Combat USA made a little unscheduled stop on the sand at Seal Beach yesterday. The 1996 Extra 300L (yup Val has flown in this very aircraft) lost power 3 or 4 miles out over the Pacific. KABC-TV news said the Air Combat Pilot Michael “Baron” Veitinghoff […]

OK, I finally edited the video from my recent flight at Air Combat.
Here are some lag rolls from the practice runs before the fights. They’re a lot of fun!

And here’s fight #3 of 6. At the very end you can hear my opponent say “He got me again!”

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