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skytrain
I went out the other night just to check and see that GSO was still there. I followed the blue field lights down by Trade Winds and ran the length of barbed wire until I lined up with the end of the runway. The becon rotated to my right and the red threshold markers were a hundred yards in front.
I lay back on the grass and smoked. A 737 came in overhead and touched down just beyond be.
The grass was dry and tickled so I sat up and stared at the sillouette of an old DC-3 still in service with Trade Winds. The DC-3 is probably one of the best looking planes ever made. Maybe one of the best planes flat out. They've been in service in one way or another since 1936. With a range of just around 1,600 miles I started thinking where I could go.
Certainly not very far unless I went over Greenland and down through Norway or Sweden. There is no easy way to the far east in a DC-3. It would make an interesting tour of places though. Around the world in an old crate like that.
This one was all shiny with a blue stripe down the side and it stood pround on huge wheels. I wanted to hop the fence and get a closer look but guys were loading freight on the far side on the field and under the spot lights I'd have been all to visible.
Instead I watched a bat circle overhead. No more planes came in or left and softly, playing in the car behind, this is what I heard...
goodnight 4.26.5.99