The Lighter Side of Flying

Everybody did their job and once you got aboard, you know, you had the tension of being briefed and everything but once you got on and started doing your responsibilities... Well leading up to that I’d go out and make sure there was no spots on the turret and little dots, after a while those dots take shapes and you imagine you are seeing it’s an aircraft way off and you have to keep moving. You can’t stare at the sky or the sky will start moving with you. We had a lot of difficult times but we had our jollies. We loved to fly low, oh man. “Hey Red,” he said. He would tell me to turn the turret around to face the front and look for light poles and high trees, you know. We’d finish training (inaudible) and we’d drop right down to ground level and we’d see the ripples on the water from our slipstream.