Greetings Loyal Airmen. This week we kick of our Flight Log with the great news that the good folks at Radio Archives have just released a brand new audi-version of our first Captain Hazzard adventure, “Python Men of the Lost City.’ It’s read by theater actor Joshua Nicholson and is available from Amazon at this link.  (http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Hazzard-Python-Lost-City/dp/B018IUJMXY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448916742&sr=8-1&keywords=Captain+Hazzard-Python+Men+of+the+Lost+City+audio)   We’ve been listening to it all week and it is superbly done. We hope you’ll give these Airship 27 audiobooks a try, we really think you’ll enjoy them.

As we have officially entered into the Christmas season, the Air Chief thought it would be fun to share with all you Loyal Airmen some of our thoughts and memories of this wonderful time of the year; keeping in mind Christmas is a Christian holiday instituted by our ancestors who rightly identified the United States of America as a predominately Christian nation…and it remains so. It is a time when Christians around the world, not only here in America, but everywhere celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, sent down to live amongst us and thus become our savior and prophesied in the Old Testament.  Jesus would become man, live and then die on the cross to save the world from sin and reopen the gates of Heaven. It is a marvelous, miraculous time when we marvel at the amazing loving Our Creator has for us.

Of course the season is filled with all manner of traditions and festivities to include joyous songs and music.  All of us have our particular favorites. The Air Chief has two. One of these being Little Drummer Boy which tells, in song, how a shepherd boy was with the first group to visit the stables in which Jesus was born and pay him homage. But fearful that he had no gifts of worth to give the babe, he offered him his talent to play his drum. And therein lies the message of wonder and hope. Our Loving God doesn’t demand gold or any such wealth from any of us.  In fact he doesn’t demand anything tangible that this world prizes but rather he ask our love and that we, in this life, be the best we can be as his creation; that we devote our hearts, as he did to the service of others through the use of our own unique skills and talents. The little drummer boy played his drum for others via Jesus.  Whereas the Air Chief prays daily that his love for his family and friends is truly expressed through all the words he writers, offering the gift of writing back to Our Lord as our personal devotion to Him who made us all.  So, what is your special talent?  And how do you use it? Hopefully for betterment of all those you love in this world.

On the comic front, the Air Chief is currently working with talented artist Barry McClain in doing a short 9 pager called DEATH DERBY. It’s an over the top manga style racing mayhem strip and features two tough-as-nails female racers, Black Betty and Kathy Kadaver as seen above. Recently inker Arrick Church joined our team and embellished Barry’s wonderful pin-up pencils. When completed the strip will appear in a future issue of RON FORTIER’S TALES OF THE MACABRE.  Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

And finally, after having recording ten episodes of  our AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST, we are proud to announce that we’ve become part of the Comics Podcast Network and you can now find all our episodes at their website. (http://comicspodcasts.com/category/comic-podcasts/zone-4-podcast/airship-27-podcast/) Plus those of dozens of other great comics related podcasts shows.  As ever, we thank you for listening in and Rob and the Air Chief are hoping to get in one more episode before year’s end.

And that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen, as ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll be back next week.

Ron – Over & Out!!