Fini Flight

When leaving a base or an air craft, air crew (mostly pilots, but not limited to pilots -he didn't have one when leaving the tanker as a boom operator) have a fini flight, or a final flight.  It's a big hooray for time on the air craft or at the station.  This time, it was really emotional for me. 1. I may still have unusual amounts of hormones since I'm still nursing and baby is only 10 months old. 2. Eric has worked really hard to be a pilot and live out this dream of his. The fact that he'll not step onto a plane as a pilot again, makes me so very sad. What the future holds though, we don't know, and that could change. I'm not holding my breath though.

 He had great weather. A wonderful crew. Got to do Air Refueling one last time --full circle.

 Girls hosed him down. Everyone enjoyed that part.

 One last look inside and out of the plane.

Long hours. Long days. Long deployments. But he loved what he was doing. He loved flying this plane.  All I can say, thank goodness for big dark sunglasses!