The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

United Airlines hates guitars almost as much as they hate passengers.

After losing his entire right wing, an Israeli Air force pilot decides to land his wounded F-15 Eagle anyway.

This Australian pilot has more coolness than several very cool people. After a midair collision, both crews bailed out of their Avro Anson bombers – except for pilot Leonard Grahm Fuller, who went on to successfully land both planes. It’s little feats like this that make you realize that the word “Heroic” gets used a little too often these days.

Leading Arcraftman Leonard Grahm Fuller was then hit and killed by a bus in 1944.

And so it goes.

It seems that “strange illusions” account for about a quarter of all air crashes. Nearly every pilot experiences some variety of sensory weirdness at some point in their flying career. Sometimes they feel that they are sitting out on the wing, watching themselves flying the plane. Some find themselves correcting for climes, dives, or rolls that aren’t actually happening. This happens while all of the instruments tell them that they are going straight and level. Apparently, staring out at the sky like that can do things to your mind.

It’s common enough to have a name, and it happens to virtually every pilot. They call it “spatial disorientation”, or (SD) for short.

Just thought you’d like to know.