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My latest novel, the middle-grade/younger YA modern-day fantasy Fireboy, is now available everywhere! Buy it wherever you buy books, or have your local bookstore or library order it in! Or, get it directly from Shadowpaw …
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Another When Words Collide, another Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop, as I once again led a group of writers through this plotting exercise devised by noted science fiction short-story writer James Van Pelt. As always, I …
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Test flying a 70-year-old airplane
A pilot (with a great sense of humour) gets his first chance to fly a DC3, more than 70 years after the famous aircraft first took to the skies. Today, decades later, scores are still in operation.
My favorite line:
I was much taken by the crew escape hatch on the left-hand fuselage side, just behind the cockpit bulkhead, because if, during an evacuation, the still-turning left propeller (the tips just missing the hatch by inches) didn’t kill you, the 25ft (7.6m) drop certainly would.
Well worth a read if you have an interest in old airplanes, or airplanes in general.
(Via DefenseTech.)
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