Sunday, April 23, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Quote of the Week
Not a quote this week. A poem instead.
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is freedom in it's purest form,
to dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
to roll and glide, to wheel and spin;
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
-- Gary Claud Stokor
SMB - 05/12/80 - 04/12/03
"The flight west my friend, is a flight we all must take for a final check."
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is freedom in it's purest form,
to dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
to roll and glide, to wheel and spin;
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
-- Gary Claud Stokor
SMB - 05/12/80 - 04/12/03
"The flight west my friend, is a flight we all must take for a final check."
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Quote of the Week
"And now ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in the New Busch Stadium, lets play ball!" - John Ulett, Busch Stadium Announcer
The Moment
Many people have asked me at one time or another what is so great about baseball. What many of them don't seem to understand is this: baseball's greatness comes from split second moments. Baseball truelly exists in the tiniest fractions of time.
It takes approximately .38 seconds for a 96 mph fastball to travel the 60 foot distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate. The moment begins when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. It's not even enough time to hold your breath, but in your brain a thousand possibilities are brewing... A swing and a miss? A pop foul? A seeing eye single? A bomb to straight away centerfield? Blink, and you might miss it. But you don't dare blink. You don't even move. If you were chearing, or clapping, or sipping your beer, you stop. All you do is watch the pitch. In that moment, even in the most pressure packed situation, even in the loudest stadium, everything goes silent, for almost exactly .38 seconds. And then silence gives way to the eruption of cheers, or perhaps groans...
It takes approximately .38 seconds for a 96 mph fastball to travel the 60 foot distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate. The moment begins when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. It's not even enough time to hold your breath, but in your brain a thousand possibilities are brewing... A swing and a miss? A pop foul? A seeing eye single? A bomb to straight away centerfield? Blink, and you might miss it. But you don't dare blink. You don't even move. If you were chearing, or clapping, or sipping your beer, you stop. All you do is watch the pitch. In that moment, even in the most pressure packed situation, even in the loudest stadium, everything goes silent, for almost exactly .38 seconds. And then silence gives way to the eruption of cheers, or perhaps groans...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Quote of the Week
"I fly because it frees my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de St. Exuperry
Monday, April 03, 2006
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Reasons not to fly French-built Airplanes
Check out this video of an Airbus A320 attempting to land in Lisbon Portugal...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2367849993821094040&q=crosswind&pl =true
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2367849993821094040&q=crosswind&pl =true
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