Brent Scowcroft, R. I. P.

I wasn’t a big fan of Brent Scowcroft,  but the man had an  abundant supply  of tenacity,  a characteristic I deeply admire,  and which I believe remains woefully under-appreciated.   He told The  Washington Post on the eve of the George H. W. Bush administration, “I don’t have a quick,  innovative mind.   I don’t automatically think of good,  new ideas.  What I do better is pick out good ideas from bad ideas.”

 

 

 

 

Pilot flew through Eiffel Tower…

William Overstreet Jr. died this week.   He matters a bit more because he  famously flew  his P-51C  ‘Berlin Express’  beneath the Eiffel Tower in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944,   Oh yeah — he got the enemy he was chasing.

There’s an app for that…

Apparently iPad really can offer you an app for everything,  even if you’re a pilot whose plane’s navigation system  has failed.