Greetings Loyal Airmen.  As you’ll recall, we ended last week’s Flight Log with high hopes this would be a stellar year for our beloved Red Sox.  Well, as the Air Chief writes these words, the Sox have just completed their opening day victory over the Phillies and it was a blow out, 8 to 0.  The biggest problem with last year’s team was their lack of offense, but all that was quickly forgotten with the Sox bats came alive in the very first inning when Dustin Pedroia hit a home run!  It was the first of two he would hit in the game.  Later Mookie Betts with hit one and then Hanley Ramirez.  Finally in the top of the ninth, Ramirez hit his own second, this time a Grand Slam.  Valerie and the Air Chief do not believe hitting is going to be an issue with this year’s team.  Wahoo!!

Many years ago the Air Chief wrote a comic series for Tekno Comics out of Florida based on an old Gene Roddenberry idea called, “The Lost Universe.”  The artist on that book was Mike Harris and he did a fantastic job with it.  After the company faded away, we lost touch with Mike until last year when we hooked up on Facebook and learned Mike is a career Army man.  He also still likes to draw and that being the case, we managed to recruit him to do illustrations for an Airship 27 title;  “Tales From the Hanging Monkey Vol II.”  Yesterday Mike turned in his first of twelve illustrations and we were blown away.  He’s only gotten better over the years.  Welcome to Airship 27, old friend, we are so glad to have you aboard.

Also out this week is our new Airship 27 Productions anthology featuring the one and only Domino Lady.  The cover above was rendered by Ted Hammond and the book features 12 stunning interior illustrations by James Lyle that dress up stories by Greg Hatcher, Gene Moyers, Tim Bruckner and Paul Findley.  Needless to say we are very, very excited about this book.  It’s now available at Amazon in hardcopy and in few days on Kindle.  We hope you check it out.  If we’re lucky, we may have a few copies with us at the Windy City Pulp & Paper show.  All fingers crossed.

And there you have it for this Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and your continued support.

Ron – Over & Out!