In WWII, most aircraft battle damage was repaired with patches taken from scrapped planes, which is part of the reason you saw relatively clean looking planes even after seeing heavy combat. In fact, patching individual bullet holes became a bit of a romantic notion of the hero in the sky. It is in this tradition […]

It is often heard that one can’t start riding a machine that is facing upslope.   While you should always try to stop your machine facing in an easy start direction, if that does’t work out as planned, there are ways… In this instance, the sled, while not dramaticially, was facing upslope and I had […]

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