De planes!

[torquill]

There was no airshow this weekend. I didn't take the time to ask the gate guard at Travis when there would be one, if there was one for this year (shadowwalkyr, is there a way you could find out?) but the announcements list I saw lied. I was obviously not the first one to ask, by the guard's reaction.

So we came home, with firestrike in tow. We ate a little lunch, then went to check out the B-17, B-24, and B-25 currently on display at Buchanan Field, just across town from me. We couldn't afford the $425 necessary to take a ride, but they let us board two of the three and poke around the outside of all of them, and we geeked a little bit with the moderately large crowd. They were working on one of the engines for the B-25 while we were there, and fired it up to (we think) do things like adjust the fuel/oil mixture. Pretty cool.

The big drawback was unexpected toxicity -- firestrike tipped me off to the spray bottles of 409 here and there, which meant that I didn't feel daring enough to climb into the B-24 (I had already done the B-17, but that seemed okay). What I didn't expect was for the crew to be going over the wing panels of the B-25 with pump sprayers full of Formula 409. I managed to stay in clear air for the most part, and watched the wind direction... I don't have any serious symptoms, despite having my alarm bells go off a few times when the wind shifted.

We're back home for the day now; firestrike has dropped off for an impromptu nap, and I'm debating going to join him.

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