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Budd Davisson: Thinking Out Loud

There's More to Life Than Airplanes---But Not a Helluvalot More No one is a one-trick pony with only one interest and my goal is to explore the extraordinary number of interests that surround us all.

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Thinking Out Loud – Dirty Words: What makes them Dirty and Who Decides They’re Dirty?

This is a more complicated subject than it sounds!!

Thinking Out Loud - It’s time to get serious about life and anything but politics. So, it's time we talk about cars.

The news is making us all nuts. Cancel Thanksgiving?? Demolish Congress/police/etc. Gimme a break. It's time to focus on the important things in life! Like cars.

Thinking Out Loud - I forgot...credit where credit is due

I forgot to credit the source of some photos in the Me 262 piece. Plus this is an excuse to show more photos

Thinking Out Loud – “Blow Job” is Easier to say than Messerschmitt

USAAF pilots had a way with words. To them the Me 262, world’s first combat jet, was a “Blow Job” and was out to kill them.

Thinking Out Loud - What do you do when you’re not where you thought you’d be?

What do you do when you can't go to Oshkosh/AirVenture? Clean the garage/workshop, of course. Doesn't everyone?

Thinking Out Loud: The AirVenture/Oshkosh that Wasn't.

Something I never thought would happen did and the show is going on without me

Thinking Out Loud - This one is definitely out of left field

What follows are the first three chapters of a novel I'll never finish but, considering what's happening around us, it might not be so far fetched. Are we building a super weak civilization?

America - The Interesting, the Beautiful, the Amazing, the Difficult-to-explain

The influx of first-time American visitors has been fun and hopefully teaches us something.

Thinking Out Loud – The Time Capsule That Just Won't Stay Buried!

July 4th will make it a year since we pulled a long-dead ’75 Vega out of the ground in Nebraska. However, the tale doesn’t end there. More capsule stuff follows.

Father's Day - the man our kids don't know

We weren't always fathers. None of us truly knows the man before he became dad.

Thinking Out Loud – There are Airplanes and Then There are Airplanes

Aviation isn’t composed of airplanes. It’s composed of airplane-oriented tribes each with their own needs and beliefs

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Thinking out Loud – The Theory of the Two-percenters

There are some basic differences in the way some see life that permeates every aspect of their make-up

Thinking Out Loud – England ran out of trees and now we’re sweating AI

Change via industrial style revolutions is a human constant. We all hate change but we'll survive

Thinking Out Loud --Part Two

Two blogs went out back to back - Memorial Day Blog is Part Two of remembrances of small town America.

Thinking Out Loud - Circle Towns

Does anyone remember life before digits? This is me picking my way cross country back when the windshield and a map were the primary nav aids. Another ancient re-written Grassroots tale.

Thinking Out Loud – Wow! When did all of this neat sh*t land in our laps?

Some of we gray dogs just discovered FaceBook, Instagram, etc Hard to believe we've missed all of this. However escaping it might be more accurate..

Thinking Out Loud – Rules we know exist but we constantly ignore

Thinking Out Loud – Rules we know exist but we constantly ignore

Thinking Out Loud – Golden Years my A**

I don’t know what I was expecting but this ain’t it! Irritating thoughts follow. :-)

Thinking Out Loud - Day dreaming a flight on a maple seed

General Aviation, as we know it today, started here and, I thought I'd pass along how it feels.