... while visiting with jon he took us out onto the rickenbacker field flight line to have an "up close and personal" view of his airplane ... even after growing up in the strategic air command, where kc-135's were a part of the background of daily life, then getting to fly on these airborne tankers when i was in the air force, it's still a thrill to get to go inside one of these great airplanes ... for adrien, obviously, it was an exciting experience ...
... so exciting, in fact, that she overcame her aversions to both ladders and buttons and allowed jon to take a shot at teaching her to fly the aircraft ...
... in the aft section of the airplane adrien tried out jon's office "couch," discovering that boeing hadn't spent much time on making it comfortable, nor, as you can clearly see, had they made any effort to provide for the differences between male and female anatomy ...
"It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."
... while in columbus, in addition to enjoying jon's "movie theater" living room, we also visited the united states air force museum in dayton ...
... seeing all the planes which had carried the call sign "air force one" was neat, even if adrien did start to believe she was harry truman ... however, viewing the slice marks that were made in the aft bulkhead of the boeing 707 so that the coffin containing john f. kennedy could be loaded into the plane's tight confines, that was a bit disconcerting ...
NIKON D200 & OLYMPUS E-PL1