A Bob's Life

SR-71 Nose On Standing in the entrance to the Udvay-Hazy National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport I heard a question from an e...

1. Airplanes, rockets, missiles, and spaceships go together very well with grandsons. 2. Who would have believed that the two front runni...

We have managed to survive the New Year party celebrations and are already ending the first month of 2012. Where did the time go? This ha...

Spending a day with two of the grandsons exploring aviation history. And yes, the Blackbird is still the fastest jet on the planet.

As I was walking back to the house the other evening from depositing the garbage container at the street, I noticed Orion hanging in the ea...

Thursday's are one of my most difficult days, schedule-wise, at work. It is one of those days where the calendar conspires against me to...

An interesting thing happened yesterday. I confess that I had never considered it before--but it is a pretty significant occurrence for the ...

We have had some really oppressive fog the past two mornings that has significantly complicated my relatively short drive to work and I had ...

Happy year of the dragon. Chinese New Year began yesterday and the mythical dragon reigns this year. I guess it is appropriate--especially g...

1. Good-bye Joe Pa. Although I never rooted for Penn State, I respected your record and approach to the game. 2. There is something relievin...