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By lex, on November 12th, 2011

Something of a hectic day, yesterday. I’d filed my flight plan from Scott AFB to Newport News by 0630, and noted with a jaundiced eye that while the low clouds and rain had subsided, the frontal passage had left my destination whipped by strong winds, from 310 at 18 knots gusting to 28. The “long” runway at KPHF is 8000 feet long, which is the shortest runway I’ve landed the Kfir on so far. Throw in a crosswind component at precisely the operating limit with external stores, and it promised to be sporty.

It was, in the event.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex