I photographed this Sikorsky S-76 helicopter last week in the Houston area.
Hope everyone is having a great week. Here in Dallas, the temperatures are going to hover around 100 degrees for the next seven days. Joy, joy. (sarcasm!!)
Thank you Anwar and Jan Arie. I make it a point to be thankful for the gift of each and every day, the people in it, the work, the lessons, the great and not so great, it's all a gift. Certainly thankful for James R. III and his Mom's return to health after an uncertain couple of days. We learned today that, had JR and his little family not been in that hospital, at that moment, under the care of those professionals, on a holiday weekend when it was deserted, we might have lost the baby and his mother. The situation was considerably more critical than we were aware of. There was a lot of scrambling and very little communication, we now know that was due to the severity of the situation. So, grateful turns to even more grateful, "God is Good....................All the time!"
Thank you Joe, I am certainly looking forward to getting to know him. I'm afraid that I'm less of a challenge during our tag games at the park these days (and Sheila telling the kids, "Take it easy on Papa at the park, we don't want him to have a heart attack.....!" doesn't give me much of a psychological edge as we head off), but I'll do my best to keep up with him.
"Doc" visited Cleveland (KBKL) today. Turns out the B29 has a long connection to Cleveland, both in its "previous life" and in its rebirth. https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/05/restored_world_war_ii_b-29_bom.html
The weather forecast was shaky, but the thunderstorms held off.
Just beginning to go through my shots. Here is one for openers; others may follow.
Duck!
This airplane was built in 1939, it is the only surviving Grumman built J2F, it was at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack. It flew in the Solomon Islands chain after Pearl Harbor. It hauled fish in the Caribbean, it crashed in a lake and was recovered many years later and restored to it's current condition
It is one of a hand full that survive and one of only two-three? that fly.
Owned by the Mid America Flight Museum in Mt. Pleasant, TX ( Scott Glover)
Displayed by pilot extraordinaire, Kelly Mahon. at the 2018 Breckenridge Airshow
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