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Morning Snooze - Angel
Our Newest Grandog
Angel and Katey
CHIHUAHUA RACES
Skyknight
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
About Me
- rotorqueen
- I feel fortunate to have flown for the pioneering Skyknight Program for 25 yrs. I saw and experienced many cool things and made many friends. I retired in 2005 and so my rotors have stopped. I started flying in 1971, at nineteen, with a coupon for a five dollar demo ride in a Cessna 150 and was hooked. Back then I could lease a Cessna 150 for eleven bucks an hour. In 1978 I earned two rotorcraft add-ons which led to employment with Lakewood, Ca. Skyknight in 1980. 17,000 hrs later I retired due to Parkinson's. I was very glad to find out why my right hand had begun to slightly shake at the same frequency as the cyclic and the pedals felt very strange on crosswind approaches in and out of the station helipad. The rotors have stopped turning in the air but are still going strong on the ground.
People, Places and Things
Books Enjoyed
- A Walk Through the Woods
- Always Looking Up
- Chronicles Of Narnia
- Duma Key
- Eat, Love, Pray
- Food Is Your Best Medicine
- Harry Potter Series
- Hot, Flat, And Crowded
- I Am Legend
- Into Thin Air
- Lake House
- Living Trees
- Lord of the Rings
- Murder On The Orient Express
- Music Of The SPheres
- Mutiny On The Bounty
- Pillars of the Earth
- Polar Shift
- Rough Country
- Storm Prey
- The Agony And The Ecstasy
- The Biology of Belief
- The Birth Of Venus
- The Celestial Prophecy
- The Geography of Bliss
- The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo
- The Hidden Messages of Water
- The Judgement
- The New Earth
- The Piano Teacher
- Treasure Island
- Trojan Odessy
- Washington's Lady
- When The Wind Blows
- Worst Case
Visit to Sherman Library and Gardens With My Sister
Blog Archive
My Blog List
Our Second Born...
Trick or Lick
Slideshow Orchids
Hanging Basket Sherman Gardens
Fuschias
Tropical
Tiny Blooms
Le Jardin Cafe
Center Court
Cece's Desert
Lemon Tarte
Driftwood and Cement Pelican
Cece and Friend
Molten Chocolate Confection
Mine All Mine
Big Daddy
Golden Monster Koi
Tropica Hot House
Exotic Orchids
Scurvydog's Cache
SHHHHHH, We're not here
Downtown
Los Angeles
Sunset
Fox
Sniper Training
Fox
FLY not yet, 'tis just the hour,
Lunar Eclipse
Rrainbows
Afternoon Thunderstorms
Taking A Call
Thunderstorm
Wake Up Sleeping Beauty
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Quiet Birdman Meeting
Gary Keating, me, Lindsay Gow (Met Life Blimp), Hughe Gilbert (Fed Ex)
Long Beach
First Travel Bug Ride (Geocache TB)
Dim Sum 8-04
Lindsay (Met Life Blimp),Glen(Los Alamitos Air Station) , Me, Cliff ( LAPD Ret.), Charlie Russell ( Goodyear Blimp Ret. ), Dick (LAPD Ret.), Fred Baak (LBPD/Fresno Sheriff Ret.)
Parkinsons Wellness Symposium 07
USA Attorney General 93-2001 Janet Reno
Utley and Me 1982
Ron, Monica, Charles
LAPD's Terri Lincoln
My Flying Sister
LAPD's Terri Lincoln
Downtown LA
HAI Lisa DiGiovana and Me
HAI 2007
Future Skyknight
Fuel Stop Airflite
1980s Skyknight
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