In June 2006 I flew to San Francisco for my third US trip. I arrived at SFO just after midday on Monday, June 19, after another sleepless twelve-hour flight from New Zealand. Mike Arrington was hosting me at his place in Atherton again, for which I was grateful. I’d also asked if he could pick me up from the...

Today I launched Aircraft Photography. Even though I'm a mediocre amateur photographer at best, I did manage to take a few aircraft photographs that are not all that bad. Instead of letting them gather dust on my machine, I've decided to share them with the world.

These days crank arm length is a hot topic. I almost avoided it - I've been happily turning over 175s for 35 years and didn't see a need to change. I even did some experiments 20 years ago. But the topic wouldn't disappear, and in the middle of 2023 of course I got curious. So this series of posts covers what I...

Vandaag groot in het nieuws, een Nederlandse AIVD agent zou een sleutelrol gespeeld hebben in het binnenbrengen van sabotagesoftware bij het Iraanse kernwapenprogramma. Nou moet me wel van het hart, dit zou op zichzelf geen schandaal moeten zijn. Iran zijn onze vrienden niet, en ik heb liever dat ze geen...