Author Archives: Chris Penningroth

Departure and Arrival

Posted on Thu, 01 November 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     The primary thing that made today a lousy one:  I had just finished my sortie and was getting ready to deal with other happenstances when I got paged to go to the Ops Desk.  Corey, the Samurai’s Aviation Resource Management … Continue reading →

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Anti-CAVU

Posted on Thu, 01 November 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Someone once told me what WOKSOF (or was it WOCSOF?) stood for.  I can’t actually remember the acronym, but it basically means the weather could charitably be described as fecal.  It wasn’t quite that bad today, but the training airspace … Continue reading →

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Twice the Fun

Posted on Wed, 24 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Today was a pair of SEAD/Force Protection sorties.  Four of us jumped out in front of a four-ship of strikers and practiced weaving in and out of SAM rings and knocked a couple Red Air fighters back a peg … Continue reading →

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Shipping

Posted on Thu, 18 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Wow! Here’s something you don’t want to see the day you buy a stock — a huge drop in price in high volume! Two days ago I purchased shares of a shipping company.  The sector looks like it’s doing … Continue reading →

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Blog Call

Posted on Sat, 13 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     If you happen to be in the Pacific NW in late Oct/early Nov and like to write on the Internet, Anwyn‘ll be hosting a Blogofogorama in a couple weeks.  I hear the main topic will be Saint Peters’ historic … Continue reading →

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Flight of the Stork

Posted on Fri, 12 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Perhaps I should say "Landing of the Stork."  Christina and I just welcomed a healthy baby boy into the family.       Mother and son are doing splendidly! Christina spent 2 hours, 19 minutes in labor.  This was our first … Continue reading →

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Marketing

Posted on Fri, 05 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     I haven’t written about investing for awhile.  I recently sold my holdings in Apple, it gapped up about a week ago and the volume seemed to be drying up.  I made my 20% gain on it, although not in … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back to the Den

Posted on Thu, 04 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     The 13 FS arrived back at home station today.  They flew 13 jets home.  Go figure!

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Welcome to Weltanschauung!

Posted on Tue, 02 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Greetings to visitors from the Cox & Forkum website! I’d love to say to check back here for cartoons, but unfortunately for lack of a picture, a thousand words will have to do.  We’ll have plenty of time for … Continue reading →

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SEPT

Posted on Tue, 02 October 2007 by Chris Penningroth

     Let’s see, what did I do today to top off last night’s divert to Hachinohe?      I had the brakes fail on taxi.  Then after "New jet, new day" I had the engine fail shortly after takeoff, followed quickly … Continue reading →

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