WITTNAUER FESTIVAL-STEINER 45MM-EKTACHROME-ISO 80
... as much as pa used to take us places, he would also find reasons to take just me with him on an outing ... sometimes it would be late in the night, when he'd been called in to the crypto vault to decode or encode some highly classified military communication ... other times, often in darkness, too, it would be to meet another of his kind for some sort of scrounging/bartering transaction ... i avoid the word "thievery," if only because i always accepted his explanation, "well, if they cared all that much they wouldn't have left it lying around" ... but in many cases i would go along to "keep him company," eventually to learn that we were going someplace that was just for me ... crawling around inside the gargantuan fuselage of an air force c-124 globemaster transport plane, the office of the president of the union pacific railroad (where in my very own hands i held one of the "golden spikes"), or, as you can see here, the inspection of an airplane of which he'd heard me express admiration ... when it was the latter there always seemed to be someone around to say, "why, you're in luck, frenchy, i just happened to have the keys with me" ...
ADRIEN'S OLYMPUS E-P3
... in 1944 ted smith and a group of douglas aircraft engineers formed a company to develop a transport plane similar in layout to the a-20 bomber ... their commander family of aircraft was manufactured from 1948 until 1986 ... it was famous for its single-engine performance and overall utility, but i liked it simply because it looked good ... last spring, while we were visiting the united states air force museum in dayton, adrien snapped this picture of me standing in front of president dwight eisenhower's personal transport ... it was the first presidential transport to sport the blue and white paint scheme, and, when the president was aboard, it was the smallest aircraft to use the "air force one" call sign ...
