Behind The Yoke

Last week I had the amazing opportunity the sit in a Gulfstream GV cockpit at Peatchtree Dekalb Airport. It was my future father in law’s last flight as a corporate pilot after 38 years with the company and he invited me down to look around. Needless to say I gladly obliged.

The aircraft was striking. Not a single speck of dirt, looked like somebody buffed it with a diaper. Nice, shiny and much larger than expected. The G-V first rolled out in 1998 and was at the time the longest range business jet of over 6,500 nautical miles. For a mere $42 million and about $100,000 plus  in monthly operating expenses you can have one. I’m saving up every month. Here’s a video of one taking off.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project for the aviation blogger community called Wingaroo. Its a new search engine specifically created to search aviation blogs. Here is the introduction I wrote on the ‘about’ page:

Wingaroo was created in 2008 for the aviation community. Wingaroo provides the opportunity to discover hidden jewels of information from high quality, hand picked aviation blogs. We understand that thousands of people from around the globe dedicate countless hours with their personal blogs writing about their experiences and interests. Aviation bloggers provide a much more personal experience and touch for their readers than their commercial counterparts and its about time to give them some credit.

Wingaroo is a custom built search engine specifically created to search aviation blogs. Its powered by Google’s Custom Search Engine program. Sites are added to the list daily so you can always have a rich search experience.Updates and developments to our site will always be documented on Wingaroo’s blog to keep you informed.

I hope everyone gets some good use out it. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve your search experience. Once again…welcome to Wingaroo.