Cattle car or G5? In search of an answer, the boys ride their trusty steeds into a discussion of time machines and jet planes as they contemplate the purchase of a private jet to augment their fleet of quarter horses. “When pigs fly!” you might say, but who would’ve thought they could rope another guest into joining them on the show.

David Norton is Partner and Head of the Aviation Practice at Shackelford Melton & McKinley, a law firm based in Dallas. One of the of the foremost aviation attorneys in the U.S., David is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a former Air Force pilot, and an active private pilot. He serves in a leadership role in various industry organizations, including as Chair of the Aviation Section of the State Bar of Texas and Chair of the National Business Aviation Association’s Domestic Operations Committee. Find out more about David and his firm here and at shacklaw.net. Welcome and thanks, David!

As for Lefty, our one-eyed cameraman, the boys have had a talk with him, and he has promised to try to keep everyone in the middle of the trail in the future.

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What’s a “ferner” you say? Well, in these parts it just means somebody who’s not from Texas. For everyone else, it just means.. Well, let’s just turn to the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal (Pensées 294):



“Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. Fundamental laws change after a few years of possession; right has its epochs; the entry of Saturn into the Lion marks to us the origin of such and such a crime. A strange justice that is bounded by a river! Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other side.”



Ya’ ain’t in Kansas anymore, buckaroos, that’s for sure! (No offense to the Kantians in the crowd)