Have been involved with Latin studies ergo, no blogging these past two weeks. But after sleeping until 1300 today, I am back online. I flew to Charlottes to save 7 hours of driving. However, with the state of American air travel these days I did not save time. Got to the charlotte airport at 2 PM for security reasons. The 5 PM flight was delayed till 630 PM b ut didn't take off until 815. Which got me into Atlanta with an hour to spare to meet my 845 flight to Huntsville which had been delayed until 1010 PM. Finally arrived in HSV at 10 PM central time which was 11 PM EST, which meant that I was in transit for 9 hours to fly two legs that should have totaled 1 hour 10 minutes.
All this leads to remember some early flying experience. The first time I ever set foot on an airplane was on a 6th grade trip to LaGuardia Airport. We were given a tour of the airport, taken up to the traffic control tower and allowed to board a DC 6 that taxied around the airport with engines roaring and propellers spinning. The next time i was airborne was when my Civil Air Patrol Drill team won a statewide competition that gave us the opportunity to float through the air on the Goodyear Blimp.Of course that was soon followed by a rather long flight via "Flying Tiger Airline" that transported me and a few others to Ton son Hout Air[port in Viet Nam. There there were numerous flights on Huey Medivac missions.
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