On Sunday, I turned 40. And the old saying, Life Begins at 40, means that I am starting a second life...the mid-life. You know, the life between
40 and the retirement ages, like 60 or something...
There has been many events that have happened during these 14,610 days, some good (graduations, birthdays meeting new friends...like everyone here at RedHedd) to the sad times (the death of my parents-mom on 12/1/85 and dad on 6/21/87, 9/11/01...) and everything in between. I was born 16 days before...
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Well, as most everyone in the US has heard by now, we lost one of our flights a few days ago. Continental 3407 went down in icing conditions around buffalo, New York. The thing that kinda made me perk up was the mention of wing icing possibly being the cause of the crash. I thought, "Wow, this seems really freaking familiar", and sure enough I was right. Wayyyyyy back in 1994, American Eagle flight 4184, a french made ATR - 72, collected too much wing ice and subsequently rolled and nose dived i...
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