Formation Solo

Well, Todd had his formation solo yesterday and we were ready and waiting! He said he would be the first set of T-6's in formation to take off...it was kind of hazy and we sat there waiting patiently. Finally we saw them parading down the runway (taxiing out)...we could see into the cockpit, he was all by himself!! I saw him waving, so we all waived back...it had to be him!!

Well, it wasn't him! We found out a few hours later that it was David Akins (a good friend of ours)...he let the cat out of the bag when he saw us in the flight room! Todd was actually the second formation to take off. Anyway...I got some footage of what we thought was Todd...good form David! Here it is...(they fly pretty close together!!)

He was not sure how Akins saw us (Todd knew where to look because he knew we would be sitting there watching) but he recognized my car and he knew Todd's parent were coming in this weekend, so he waived to us! Too funny! Todd was the second formation to go...we saw him taxiing out but we did not wave to him. :( We thought we already did!!

So, Todd didn't know we were in on this little secret...when he came home we were like..."Wow, you did awesome!" "We saw you wave...blah, blah, blah"... and then came the good part. I said "You did a great job, but who ever was in the second formation, was really wobbly...who in the heck was that?" Ha, ha...he then revealed to us that he was not the first go, he was the second. And we told him we knew that and we were just messing with him!! Too cute...thanks David for telling us (that was kind of fun!).

Elizabeth, I will get those pictures to you! For a brief second David had his own little fan club!! :)