October means Fall should be here, but it feels kind of summery still. The trees are green, the days are warm, the tourists are gone from our beaches, it’s really a fine time of year to be in Rhode Island.
My story about a scientist studying the effect of the full Moon on crime rates came out in the Roger Williams University magazine, click here for that. This was my second story for them, and I was glad to see that the final version was virtually unchanged from the story that I filed. That’s the kind of editing I appreciate!
I wrote a short story for Robb Report’s website about Airventure, the big airshow I go to every year in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It’s been a challenge to create new content for Robb’s “New & Noteworthy” pages, since production has slowed down dramatically in the aviation biz since the economic downturn. So I was glad they were up for this story, it’s kind of a departure from the usual format for that site.
Fall semester is under way at Rhode Island College, with a bit of a late start. My class (Intro to Environmental Science) meets just once a week, on Mondays… the first week was cancelled due to Tropical Storm Irene, and the second week was Labor Day. But we’ll catch up over what’s left of the term. We’re off to to a good start, with the students learning where their water comes from, and what watershed they live in, and where their wastewater goes. We had an excellent visit from Mike Clark, a water-supply expert. I always try to bring in a lot of guest speakers, it’s great to help connect the students to their local community.
September 21-24 was the annual Aviation Summit held by the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association. It was in Hartford this year, which means it was my turn to go cover the show for AVweb. I met our editor Paul Bertorelli there. We shot a lot of video and did a lot of podcast interviews, as well as daily stories and photos from the show. It was busy, but manageable! All of our content is posted on the AVweb site.
I’m lucky to have the chance to work with Paul, who knows the biz inside out, and has patiently been helping me to learn video production. I am working on a video that I shot about the Kestrel aircraft company, and hope to have it posted on the site soon!
The pik here is of Hollywood star Cuba Gooding Jr climbing into a WWII-era P-51 like the ones flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. Gooding came to the AOPA event to promote a movie about the Airmen, coming out in January.
