Greetings Loyal Airmen, it looks like Mother Nature finally took out her long Winter White Gown and dropped it over the North East this past weekend.  Kind of a dramatic introduction to the season. Then again, she’s never been known to be subtle. To all our friends and family still digging out, we send “warm” wishes for an early Spring.

Meanwhile, our good friends at Radio Archives continue to release wonderful audio book versions of our Airship 27 titles. The most recent just released this week is writer Jim Beard’s CAPTAIN ACTION – Riddle of the Glowing Men. Believe me, our friends Ed Catto and Joe Ahearn at Captain Action Enterprises LLC were thrilled when we told them it was available. The book is read by voice actor Fred Wolinsky who, like all Radio Archives readers, does a fantastic job. These audio versions can be found by simply going to the Amazon page where the book is sold. The Air Chief thinks, if you are one of those souls who has to commute to and from work every day, these audio pulps are the perfect way to enjoy the ride.

One of the Air Chief’s favorite series currently on TV is AGENT PEGGY CARTER, now in its second season. This year the writers sent the cast off to have an adventure in glamorous Hollywood circa the late 1940s. There Peggy runs into her dear friend, genius inventor Howard Stark, who, as any Marvel fans knows, will eventually father Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. Well in last evening’s episode, Peggy finds Howard on a movie studio directing a western.  But not just any western, rather one based on the highly popular comic series of the time, KID COLT OUTLAW. And not only does Howard hold up a cover mock to show Peggy, later in his office we see two issues of the comic on the bookshelf behind them. And the Air Chief was ecstatic.  Why? Well simply because the first comic book my father ever gave me, at the tender age of five years old, was a Kid Colt Outlaw.   And trust us, Loyal Airmen, if you know real comic book fans, we all somehow remember our very first comicbook.  And the Air Chief is no exception. And so a tip of the hat to the good people at ABC and AGENT PEGGY CARTER.  You picked a winner for this charming little scene, one near and dear to us, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.   Below is a snap from the actual scene; red shirt and pinto vest identified him immediately.

And finally, wrapping up our last Flight Log of January 2016 (…and hey, where did the month go?) we wanted to applaud a science fiction series we’ve really been enjoying these past few weeks.

When the SyFy Channel was first born, it promised the potential of some great television for all us sci-fy fans and then within a few years had deteriorated into giving us old recycled shows from the networks or foisting gawd-awful made-for-TV flicks such as the uber ridiculous Sharnado titles. Then last year there were rumblings on the internet that there was new management at the channel and they were serious about program new, adult sci-fi series of quality.  Well, the Air Chief is here to report they’ve made good on that claim with THE EXPANSE, a brand new, gripping, sci-fi political thriller based on a popular series of novels. The cast is top-notch, the FX top-of-the line and the story complex and intriguing. It never insults the viewer and the directing is spot-on with a pace that has never lagged once. In fact next week is already the two-hour first season finale and we were shocked upon realizing how fast it had come upon us. If you like good sci-fi, you need to find THE EXPANSE.  Believe us, you will not be disappointed.

And that’s our Flight Log for this week.  See you next week…when Feb rolls around.

Ron – Over & Out!