Posted by
Thacker Agency.com on Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:07:26 PM
I was at the post office today, which is at our airport, coming back to the office when I
looked up and saw a huge plane that had just taken off from Greensboro
a minute ago. It was big enough for me to notice that it was a plane I
would like to identify. It looked big enough to be a 747, but was it?
Not many 747's use this airport. A longer look and sure enough the
nose did look bigger than the rest of the plane. I thought I could
make out 4 engines on the wings. But the colors were too far away to
make out. It seemed like there was some blue shimmering on the nose.
Just like AIR FORCE ONE!
My heart skipped, 'no way', I
thought. The President isn't in town because there would be police
everywhere if it really was Air Force One. There is one other 747 for
the cargo company Tradewinds Cargo that is usually at the airport.
Maybe it was that 747. Maybe Fedex was flying in to test out the
equipment at the new hub. I know from working with Fedex in grad school
that most of their planes are 737's, with a few DC10 and DC9's, and a
couple of 727's. Maybe they had a new 747, but I would know the colors
of a Fedex plane from that distance.
Surely I thought it was
the 747 of the Cargo company. But I just had to see it. It was still
in the landing pattern so I knew it was going to come back around. If
it was Air Force One, that would be cool, but it would still be cool to
see such a gigantic aircraft fly.
So I drove to the market
street runway and parked. I saw it in the pattern so it was going to
be coming to land any minute. First a small single engine piper landed
(yawn), then a commuter came in to land (nope, not what I'm looking
for). A jet took off between those to aircraft to give you some idea
of how long I waited. . . .
and waited. . .
and waited. . . .
I
had to get to work and there was no sign of this monstrous plane I had
seen. Had it left the pattern? Was it going to another airport?
Should I go on with my day? After all, it's just a plane. . .
But
then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, just above the tree tops, in all its physics
defying majesty! Right above my head there it was! The bastion of
freedom around the world! The harbinger of justice to those
mistreated! The torch of Liberty from sea to shining sea! The
pin ultimate icon of Capitalism world wide! as plain as the nose on my
face! AIR FORCE ONE 747 set to land at full throttle for the go around with the blue and spangled
wording 'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"!
Oh, I could not believe
it. I saw it from an angle few will. For surely had the President
been on the plane, I would not have been able to get that close! It didn't
land. It flew right over the Runway on a 'touch and go' but never
actually put its wheels on the ground. My lunch break I got a fly by
of AIR FORCE ONE! Imagine the countries and places that plane has
seen. I know there is more than one air force one, and it is only air
force one when the President is on it technically. But wow!
This
was better than the f-15 flyby at the Wake Forest homecoming two weeks
ago. But that F-15 fly over was THE BOMB because the f-15 is my
favorite plane and they were so low and so fast and it was REALLY
AWESOME! But this was even BETTER!
That plane is calling me.
It's the only reason I would want to be President. But it might be
enough of a reason to get me to seriously consider straightening up my
act and letting my ideas benefit the world. I don't know if I want to
be President. But that plane and all it symbolizes and represents is
something I definitely want.
I had to share that experience with someone because I was by myself, but it was awesome!