I've attended the Cleveland National Air Show regularly since 2008. Because I'm such an aviation geek , I love giving tours to the people who come with me. And sometimes I attract attention.

I've gotten a broad view of the various aircraft out there today, and have been involved in the design or manufacture of many too. All photos are mine or public domain.

Update schedule change: I'm dropping my Friday updates going forward: with my childcare duties and having burned through much of the backlog of items I wanted to blog about, I'll be updating only two days per week: Monday and Wednesday. Now on to the (last?) Friday musing: Inauspicious Beginning This post was inspired by poor phrasing: on March 6, 2025, Aviation Week quoted General Randall Reed , the chief of the US Air Force Transportation Command, as stating that for the brand-new B-21 Raider bomber, “it’s going to be a little bit higher requirement specifically in the fuel transfer”. At the time, Aviation Week reported that meant that the B-21 would require a faster fuel-transfer rate, i.e. that a single aerial refueling tanker could deliver X gallons per minute more than it could today. Later, Transportation Command clarified they meant that the US Air Force needed more tanker aircraft, not a faster pump. I had a whole rant planned on how something had to be horribly...