May 3, 2010
“Avanti” (May 2010) Randy Witt with friends and family right after our Avanti flight: OK so X-Plane biz-manager Randy Witt knows a guy that flies his […]
May 26, 2010
“Honeymoon” (May 2010) OK so I just got married so here are some pix of our wedding and then honeymoon through Europe: BOND! JAMES BOND! JAMES […]
June 26, 2010
“Racing” (June 2010) Ok so it was time to take a short vacation from X-Plane 10 development, and Randy’s wife (Randy of all your tech support […]
March 26, 2011
I have been flying Columbia 400’s for a while, and they are great, but married with a baby on the way and the desire to travel […]
May 26, 2011
“Endeavour” (May 2011) 20 years of manned flights to orbit and I have never made the time to go see a Shuttle Launch. Ridiculous. So the […]
July 5, 2011
So it was dark around 4 am or so as we all crowded around the tower. We we all pulling an overnighter… the NASA workers, the […]
July 26, 2011
It is so loud you can barely hear the screaming. It is so bright, you can barely look at it. But, I am getting ahead of […]
April 26, 2012
OK so I have been shooting rockets where the parachutes get popped out at a pre-determined time by the engine. Here is how it works: You […]
May 9, 2012
QUIT DOING THIS OR DIE!!! (MYTHS of aviation, some of which can kill you) (Note: The topics on the need for left-rudder in propeller airplanes, and […]
May 26, 2012
OK so I am working on the VP-400, and artificially-intelligent avionics package that continuously considers power-off glides to every airport within gliding range and will take […]
September 26, 2012
Most of what you see below is what I have sort of figured out from working through it all, bit by bit, to turn my iPad […]
October 26, 2012
What should an ideal backup avionics system be? Should it be a big, heavy, expensive box filling up the airplane with hordes of possibly chaffing or […]
August 6, 2013
So at a family reunion near Bend, Oregon, I found myself at the base of the ski lift on Mount Bachelor. It was the middle of […]
August 7, 2013
OK so a car called the Ferrari 599-GTB was making a lap across North America, stopping at Ferrari clubs along the way, with a driver from […]
December 18, 2013
X-Plane has done well enough for me to pay my bills, so now I am giving the extra back. Here are some of the projects that […]
March 7, 2014
Is this an adventure? No. But I am publishing it anyway, because I care. (And I will never eat at Jimmy-Johns… I would rather go hungry) […]
August 5, 2014
“Whatever goes wrong with tomorrow’s flight, it WON’T be access to data.” These were among my last words to my wife that evening as I settled […]
September 20, 2014
So it turns out that chimps are still being used for medical research. Why care? Certainly, they are often MADE sick and GIVEN diseases, for simply for […]
November 18, 2014
A B-17 bomber goes flying over my house so I run out the local airport to see it. Turns out you can buy a ticket for a […]
January 5, 2015
Recently I have pretty much stopped watching fiction as it is largely a waste of time. We certainly don’t find out what is going on in […]
January 11, 2015
What if you took an 850-hp Pratt and Whitney PT-6a Turbine and put it on a 100% carbon-fiber airframe? What would happen? Well, this: A 5,000+ […]
February 1, 2015
My favorite session at the old Mac-Hack computer programming conventions I used to go to was called “Don’t Do This It Doesn’t Work”. It was a […]
February 7, 2015
So I am spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and years of my life trying to prove that Uniloc did not invent a […]