The C-45 is a very stylish vehicle to “feed the need”, Tailspin. I’ll be watching for your literary advisories and getting in line to get my copy autographed. I’m sure it will be a great read for us, and a great adventure for both of you. Best.

So we rummaged around the web trying to find a home-based business we could run in a sweat suit instead of a flightsuit, and discovered that the field of telework was growing by leaps and bounds thanks to the threat of pandemics and terror attacks plus the promise of higher fuel costs. We also discovered that 9 out of 10 websites offering home-based jobs were scams.

So we’re doing some writing on the topic including a blog and a book tentatively titled Undress For Success. We’ve landed one of the top literary agents, and now we’re waiting with bated breath while he goes after a publisher. One of his authors just a signed an $80 million deal for the foreign rights to three books he hasn’t even written yet. Ken Follett, no less. (A guy can dream, right? Buy a couple jets for me and my friends?)

And of course we’ll keep an eye out here for Lex’s tales of daring-do aloft as he learns to tame the 150 horses that drag the VG-21 around the sky. Lest anyone think it will be boring keep in mind that one of his adversaries is going to be the former CO of a Navy test and eval squadron who led the flight testing of the FA-18E/F. Unfortunately Lex will miss flying against one of the former X-31 test pilots who just returned to Pax River as an instructor.

Good times they were, with good folks. Well, except for that time when we were out of business for several weeks following 9/11, with the FBI on Kate’s doorstep wanting to know who we’d been flying with, while I bobbed around in the Pacific between Pearl and San Diego as a Tiger cruise guest.

Any idea who was the Ops Officer on the Connie during that unique transit? Yup, six years later I discover it was none other than our own Neptunus Lex hisself.

Gotta like that in a wife? Master of Understatement…

Deciding to sell must have caused more than a few sleepless nights. Best of luck to you and “the boss” in your new endeavors–with all respect. I sure the warbirds and especially the friends will always be there for you both.

As for Lex, I hope you find the same joy and are prepared for what appears will be a very busy schedule. Enjoy!

Mark

Met her in a previous incarnation when I was running a failing computer company. She found money and ideas to keep it going and a grant that paid her consulting fees. You gotta like that in a consultant.

Then I took her for a ride in my 1929 biplane. Ten minutes into it she obviously was enjoying herself because she was waving something in the slipstream. Turned out to be her tanktop. You gotta like that in a woman.

Soon, she learned to fly, and in a few years I found myself surround by more biplanes, air combat aircraft, WW2 warbirds, and wonderful pilots than I could ever have imagined. Pillow talk one night was about buying a dual-control P-51. You gotta like that in a wife.

We sold the company 18 months ago, and I have a feeling a bit as if Lex is going to take my daughter on a date, and I ‘won’t be there to check him out. But I think he’ll do just fine.